Josiah's Reformations. II Kings 23

 

II Kings 23 – Josiah’s Reformations.

 

Th people of Judah said that not only would they read the Word of God, but they would also walk. They would live in the manner that it prescribed.

First Josiah put idolatry out of the temple of God. All the things that pertain to the worship of false gods were burned in the fields of Kidron, outside of the city of Jerusalem. The ashes were then taken out of town so that the people could not even look to the ashes.

Then Josiah put away immorality. He had the courage to condemn the sodomites. He not only condemned their actions, but he also put them out of the kingdom. God has said that sodomy will bring down His wrath. It has in the past, and He has not changed. We have changed, but God has not changed.

Josiah also stopped the offering of human sacrifices, children, to Molech.

Josiah also broke down images, altars, high places, and groves that kings before him had brought into the land.

Then Josiah made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the Lord their God. “And all his days they departed not from following the Lord, the God of their fathers.”

Josiah reinstituted the Passover.

After all that he had done, he done something he shouldn’t have done. He got mixed up in a fight that wasn’t his. He should have stayed home, but he went anyway. There he was killed at Megiddo.

Josiah was a great man of God, but he was foolish. He entered a battle that was none of his concern.

Then his son, Jehoahaz reigned. He was an evil king and reigned only three months. His other son, Jehoiakim reigned for eleven years. He was also an evil king.

 

 

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J. Vernon McGee Commentary and Nelson’s Quick Reference Commentary.