2 Kings 22:1-2
Josiah Reigns in Judah
1 aJosiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of bBozkath. 2And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and walked in all the way of David his father, cand he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.2 Kings 23:15-18
15Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the high place erected dby Jeroboam the son of Nebat, ewho made Israel to sin, fthat altar with the high place he pulled down and burned, ▼▼Septuagint broke in pieces its stones
reducing it to dust. He also burned the Asherah. 16And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar and defiled it, haccording to the word of the Lord that the man of God proclaimed, who had predicted these things. 17Then he said, “What is that monument that I see?” And the men of the city told him, i“It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and predicted ▼▼Hebrew called
these things that you have done against the altar at Bethel.” 18And he said, “Let him be; let no man move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones kof the prophet who came out of Samaria. 2 Chronicles 34:1
Josiah Reigns in Judah
1 lJosiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.2 Chronicles 34:4-7
4And they chopped down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and he cut down the mincense altars that stood above them. And he broke in pieces the nAsherim and the carved and the metal images, and he made dust of them and oscattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. 5 pHe also burned the bones of the priests on their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. 6And in the qcities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins ▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
all around, 7he broke down the altars and beat the sAsherim and the images tinto powder and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem. Isaiah 42:9
9Behold, the former things have come to pass,uand new things I now declare;
before they spring forth
I tell you of them.”
Isaiah 44:26-28
26 vwho confirms the word of his servantand fulfills the counsel of his messengers,
who says of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be inhabited,’
wand of the cities of Judah, ‘They shall be built,
and I will raise up their ruins’;
27 xwho says to the deep, ‘Be dry;
I will dry up your rivers’;
28who says of yCyrus, ‘He is zmy shepherd,
and he shall fulfill all my purpose’;
saying of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be built,’
aaand of the temple, ‘Your foundation shall be laid.’”
Isaiah 46:10
10 abdeclaring the end from the beginningand from ancient times things not yet done,
saying, ac‘My counsel shall stand,
and I will accomplish all my purpose,’
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