2 Kings 22:1

_JOSIAH WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, AND HE REIGNED THIRTY AND ONE YEARS IN JERUSALEM. AND_ _ HIS MOTHER'S NAME WAS JEDIDAH, THE DAUGHTER OF ADAIAH OF BOSCATH._ Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign. Happier than his grandfather Manasseh, he seems to have fallen, during his minority, under the care of better guardians, who trained him in the principles and practice of piety; and so strongly had his young affections been enlisted on the side of true and undefiled religion, that he continued to adhere all his life, with undeviating perseverance, to the cause of God and righteousness....

1-10 The different event of Josiah's early succession from that of Manasseh, must be ascribed to the distinguishing grace of God; yet probably the persons that trained him up were instruments in producing this difference. His character was most excellent. Had the people joined in the reformation as heartily as he persevered in it, blessed effects would have followed. But they were wicked, and had become fools in idolatry. We do not obtain full knowledge of the state of Judah from the historical records, unless we refer to the writings of the prophets who lived at the time. In repairing the temple, the book of the law was found, and brought to the king. It seems, this book of the law was lost and missing; carelessly mislaid and neglected, as some throw their Bibles into corners, or maliciously concealed by some of the idolaters. God's care of the Bible plainly shows his interest in it. W...

CHAPTER XXII _Josiah succeeds Amon his father, and reigns_ thirty-one _years_, 1, 2. _He repairs the breaches of the temple_, 3-7. _Hilkiah finds the book of the law tn the temple_, 8. _It is read by Shaphan the scribe, before the king and his_ _servants_, 9, 10. _The king, greatly affected, sends to inquire of Huldah the_ _prophetess_, 11-13. _She delivers an afflictive prophecy concerning the evils that_ _were coming upon the land_, 14-17. But promises Josiah that these evils shall no

EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 22:1 ACCESSION OF JOSIAH. REPAIR OF THE TEMPLE. RECOVERY OF THE BOOK OF THE LAW. 2 KINGS 22:1 GENERAL CHARACTER OF JOSIAH'S REIGN. _His repair of the temple_._ _The writer begins his account of Josiah's reign with the usual brief summary, giving his age at his accession, the length of his reign, his mother's name and birthplace ...

JOSIAH WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN,.... And must be born when his father was but sixteen, for Amon lived but twenty four years, 2 Kings 21:19, AND HE REIGNED THIRTY AND ONE YEARS IN JERUSALEM; and so must die at thirty nine years of age: AND HIS MOTHER'S NAME WAS JEDIDAH, THE DAUGHTER OF ADAIAH OF BOSCATH; a city of the tribe of Judah, Joshua 15:39....

V. THE REIGN OF JOSIAH 1. The Revival CHAPTER 22 _ 1. Josiah begins to reign (2 Kings 22:1; 2 Chronicles 34:1)_ 2. The temple repaired (2 Kings 22:3; 2 Chronicles 34:8) 3. The law discovered (2 Kings 22:8; 2 Chronicles 34:14) 4. The reading of the law and its results (2 Kings 22:10) 5. The

2 KINGS 22:1 TO 2 KINGS 23:30_ A_. THE REIGN AND REFORMS OF JOSIAH. The fifty-seven years of the reigns of Manasseh and Amon were, according to Kings (not Chronicles), a period of apostasy, which probably continued for the first ten years of Josiah. The prophetic party had consequently remained out of power since the persecution of Manasseh (2 Kings 21:16). They regained their influence by the discovery of the Book of the Law (2 Kings 22:8). The prophetess Huldah, on being consulted, foretold that all the calamities predicted in the book would come true, but that Josiah should go to his grave in peace and not witness the ruin of hi

JOSIAH AND THE BOOK OF THE LAW.-- 2 Kings 22:1-13. GOLDEN TEXT. --_ He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord._ -- 2 Kings 22:2. TIME. --B. C. 622. PLACE. --Jerusalem. HELPFUL READINGS. -- 2 Chronicles 34:1-21; 2 Kings 12:1-16; Deuteronomy 29:22-29; Deuteronomy 31:24-27. LESSON ANALYSIS. --1.. Righteous King; 2. The Lost Book Found; 3.. National Repenta

EIGHT YEARS. Manasseh began at twelve, bred under godly Hezekiah. Josiah began at eight, bred by ungodly Amon. Contrast the two characters. BOSCATH. In Judah. Compare Joshua 15:39....

2 Kings 22:1-7. Josiah king of Judah. His good reign. He begins to repair the temple (2 Chronicles 34:1-13) 1. _Josiah_was _eight years old when he_began _to reign_ Called to the throne as such a mere child the new king must have been under some guardianship, and however good his natural desires may have been, he could hardly have commenced the great reforms which he brought about until he had been some time on the throne. _Boscath_ R.V. BOZCATH. This latter is the form of the word in Joshua 15:39, where it is mentioned between Lachish and Eglon among the cities of the inheritance of the tribe of Judah. It must have been in the lowlands of Judæa, but its site is