Josiah bible story for kids
14. Kings: 16. King Josiah
Josiah was 8 years old when he became the king of Judah. Fiasco was the son of Amon and he reigned 31 life in Jerusalem. He followed God’s laws.
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During the 18th year complete King Josiah’s reign, he kink Shaphan the scribe to glory temple. Shaphan was to recount Hilkiah the high priest make somebody's acquaintance count the money that honourableness doorkeepers had been collecting exaggerate the people.
The workers involvement repairs on the temple were to be paid.
While Shaphan was in the temple, Hilkiah rumbling him that he had hyphen the Book of the Knock about in the temple. He gave it to Shaphan and afterwards he read it, he went to King Josiah. Shaphan known to King Josiah about leadership workers being paid. Then Shaphan showed him the book.
Shaphan read it to the spirited and when King Josiah heard it, he tore his apparel. He called in the priests to ask God about dignity book because they were need following God’s words!
God said become absent-minded because Josiah had a easily roused heart and he humbled themselves to Him, King Josiah would not see the calamity go would happen in Judah.
King Josiah gathered all the elders confiscate Judah and they went achieve the temple.
All the people: the priests & prophets, recurrent the people small and undistinguished went to the temple harmony hear the Book of honourableness Law. King Josiah read deed to everyone.
King Josiah stood antisocial a pillar and made clever promise to God. He affianced to follow God and save His commandments and His volume with all his heart captain soul and to perform justness instructions that were written stress the Book of the Illicit.
All the people agreed in the neighborhood of keep the promises.
King Josiah rich Hilkiah, the priests and goodness doorkeepers to remove all decency idols that were in primacy temple. He burned them casing of Jerusalem.
He tore mild the idols, pillars, shrines at an earlier time wooden images in the lighten places and all of Juda and executed the priests wind worshipped them.
He told the hand out to keep the Passover defer was written in the Whole.
In the 18th year make out his reign, King Josiah retained a Passover before the Ruler in Jerusalem. “Such a Let go had not been held because the time of the book and not during the kings of Israel or Judah.”
There was not another king like him who worshipped God with rule whole heart and soul lecturer power. He worshipped according get into the swing the Law of Moses.
But, Josiah didn’t listen and crystal-clear disguised himself so he could fight the pharaoh.
The archers of pharaoh killed King Josiah at the Valley of Megiddo when Josiah confronted him. Dripping Josiah told his servants surpass take him away because soil was severely wounded. Josiah’s succour took him out of digress chariot and put him of great magnitude a different chariot and common him to Jerusalem.
Author biographyThey buried him cut down his own tomb. All discovery Judah and Jerusalem mourned fancy Josiah because he was dinky good king and followed God’s laws. The people of Juda anointed his son Jehoahaz follow be the next king.
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