WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:03.140 Ethan: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:03.257 --> 00:00:04.377 Day 200 and 40 00:00:04.828 --> 00:00:08.398 josiah was eight years old when he became King, and he 00:00:08.398 --> 00:00:10.768 reigned in Jerusalem 31 years. 00:00:11.578 --> 00:00:15.778 His mother was Judiah, the daughter of Adah from Boscov. 00:00:16.588 --> 00:00:19.828 He did what was pleasing in the Lord's sight and followed the 00:00:19.828 --> 00:00:21.628 example of his ancestor David. 00:00:22.498 --> 00:00:24.958 He did not turn away from doing what was right. 00:00:26.503 --> 00:00:31.153 In the 18th year of his reign, king Josiah sent Shefa son 00:00:31.153 --> 00:00:33.073 of Asiah and grandson of Ms. 00:00:33.073 --> 00:00:36.493 Shula, the court secretary to the temple of the Lord. 00:00:37.153 --> 00:00:42.433 He told him Go to Aliah, the high priest and have him count the money the 00:00:42.433 --> 00:00:47.023 gatekeepers have collected from the people at the Lord's temple and trusts this, this 00:00:47.023 --> 00:00:50.833 money to the men assigned to supervise the restoration of the Lord's temple. 00:00:51.523 --> 00:00:54.403 Then they can use it to pay workers to repair the temple. 00:00:55.048 --> 00:01:00.028 They will need to hire carpenters, builders, and masons also have them 00:01:00.028 --> 00:01:04.618 buy the timber and the finished stone needed to repair the temple, but don't 00:01:04.618 --> 00:01:08.368 require the construction supervisors to keep account of the money they receive 00:01:08.968 --> 00:01:10.648 for they are honest and trustworthy. 00:01:10.648 --> 00:01:11.008 Men. 00:01:11.878 --> 00:01:16.978 Hel chia, the high priest said to Shahan the court secretary, I have found the 00:01:16.978 --> 00:01:19.018 book of the law in the Lord's temple. 00:01:20.008 --> 00:01:23.428 Then Aliah gave the scroll to Shahan and he read it. 00:01:24.928 --> 00:01:28.588 Shahan went to the king and reported your officials have turned over. 00:01:28.588 --> 00:01:31.588 The money collected at the temple of the Lord to the workers 00:01:31.588 --> 00:01:33.088 and supervisors at the temple. 00:01:33.688 --> 00:01:38.338 Shahan also told the King Haaa, the priest has given me a scroll. 00:01:39.298 --> 00:01:40.978 So Shahan read it to the king. 00:01:41.848 --> 00:01:44.578 When the king heard what was written in the book of the law, 00:01:44.698 --> 00:01:46.858 he tore his clothes in despair. 00:01:47.668 --> 00:01:50.218 Then he gave these orders to hel chia the priest. 00:01:50.593 --> 00:01:56.353 Hiem son of Shahan, AK Bor, son of McKay, and Shahan, the court secretary 00:01:56.743 --> 00:01:59.233 and Isaiah the King's personal advisor. 00:01:59.953 --> 00:02:04.783 Go to the temple and speak to the Lord for me and for the people and for all. 00:02:04.788 --> 00:02:09.313 Judah inquire about the words written in this scroll that has been found 00:02:09.973 --> 00:02:14.953 for the Lord's great anger is burning against us because our ancestors have 00:02:14.953 --> 00:02:16.933 not obeyed the words in this scroll. 00:02:17.713 --> 00:02:20.863 We have not been doing everything it says we must do. 00:02:21.703 --> 00:02:28.003 So Kyah the priest, a haiku, AK bor, Shahan, and Isaiah went to 00:02:28.003 --> 00:02:31.603 the new quarter of Jerusalem to consult with the prophet Halda. 00:02:32.233 --> 00:02:36.433 She was the wife of Shalom, son of Tikva, son of Haha, the 00:02:36.463 --> 00:02:37.993 keeper of the temple wardrobe. 00:02:38.803 --> 00:02:42.403 She said to them, the Lord, the God of Israel has spoken. 00:02:42.943 --> 00:02:46.903 Go back and tell the man who sent you, this is what the Lord says. 00:02:47.503 --> 00:02:50.743 I'm going to bring disaster on this city and its people. 00:02:51.343 --> 00:02:54.913 All the words written in the scroll that the King of Judah has read 00:02:54.973 --> 00:03:00.043 will come true for my people have abandoned me and offered sacrifices to 00:03:00.043 --> 00:03:04.483 pagan gods, and I am very angry with them for everything they have done. 00:03:05.083 --> 00:03:08.833 My anger will burn against this place and it will not be quenched. 00:03:09.403 --> 00:03:14.203 But go to the King of Judah who sent you to seek the Lord and tell him. 00:03:14.818 --> 00:03:18.508 This is what the Lord the God of Israel says concerning the message. 00:03:18.508 --> 00:03:23.788 You have just heard you were sorry and humbled yourself before the Lord when 00:03:23.788 --> 00:03:27.688 you heard what I said against this city and its people that this land 00:03:27.688 --> 00:03:29.428 would be cursed and become desolate. 00:03:30.058 --> 00:03:35.128 You tore your clothing in despair and wept before me in repentance, and I 00:03:35.128 --> 00:03:37.288 have indeed heard you says the Lord. 00:03:38.098 --> 00:03:42.208 So I will not send the promised disaster until after you have 00:03:42.208 --> 00:03:44.128 died and been buried in peace. 00:03:44.863 --> 00:03:47.893 You will not see the disaster I'm going to bring on this city. 00:03:48.823 --> 00:03:50.923 So they took her message back to the king. 00:03:52.123 --> 00:03:56.473 Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem, and the king 00:03:56.473 --> 00:03:59.653 went up to the temple of the Lord with all the people of Judah and 00:03:59.658 --> 00:04:04.063 Jerusalem, along with the priests and the prophets, all the people 00:04:04.243 --> 00:04:06.823 from the least to the greatest there. 00:04:06.823 --> 00:04:10.213 The king read to them the entire book of the covenant that had 00:04:10.213 --> 00:04:11.563 been found in the Lord's temple. 00:04:12.388 --> 00:04:16.768 The king took his place of authority beside the pillar and renewed the 00:04:16.768 --> 00:04:18.718 covenant in the Lord's presence. 00:04:19.318 --> 00:04:23.848 He pledged to obey the Lord by keeping all his commands, laws, and 00:04:23.848 --> 00:04:26.008 decrees with all his heart and soul. 00:04:26.698 --> 00:04:30.388 In this way, he confirmed all the terms of the covenant that were written 00:04:30.388 --> 00:04:34.528 in the scroll, and all the people pledged themselves to the covenant. 00:04:36.328 --> 00:04:39.988 Then the king instructed Aliah, the high priest and the priests of the 00:04:39.988 --> 00:04:44.758 second rank and the temple gatekeepers to remove from the Lord's temple. 00:04:45.118 --> 00:04:49.768 All the articles that were used to worship Baal as Shira and all the powers 00:04:49.773 --> 00:04:54.718 of the heavens, the king had all these things burned outside Jerusalem on 00:04:54.718 --> 00:04:59.188 the terraces of the Kidron Valley, and he carried the ashes away to Bethel. 00:04:59.923 --> 00:05:03.883 He did away with the idolatrous priests who had been appointed by 00:05:03.883 --> 00:05:07.633 the previous kings of Judah for they had offered sacrifices at the 00:05:07.633 --> 00:05:11.743 pagan shrines throughout Judah and even in the vicinity of Jerusalem. 00:05:12.463 --> 00:05:16.963 They had also offered sacrifices to bail and to the sun, the 00:05:16.963 --> 00:05:21.073 moon, the constellations, and to all the powers of the heavens. 00:05:22.123 --> 00:05:25.873 The king removed the Ashra pole from the Lord's temple and took 00:05:25.873 --> 00:05:29.173 it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley where he burned it. 00:05:29.878 --> 00:05:33.988 Then he ground the ashes of the pole to dust and threw the dust 00:05:33.988 --> 00:05:35.428 over the graves of the people. 00:05:36.238 --> 00:05:40.228 He also tore down the living quarters of the male and female shrine 00:05:40.228 --> 00:05:44.758 prostitutes that were inside the temple of the Lord, where the women 00:05:44.758 --> 00:05:46.888 wove coverings for the as pole. 00:05:47.848 --> 00:05:51.148 Josiah brought to Jerusalem, all the priests who were 00:05:51.148 --> 00:05:52.768 living in other towns of Judah. 00:05:53.428 --> 00:05:57.748 He also defiled the pagan shrines where they had offered sacrifices. 00:05:58.228 --> 00:06:03.118 All the way from Giba to Beersheba, he destroyed the shrines at the 00:06:03.118 --> 00:06:06.238 entrance to the gate of Joshua, the governor of Jerusalem. 00:06:07.228 --> 00:06:09.718 This gate was located to the left of the city gate. 00:06:09.778 --> 00:06:14.968 As one enters the city, the priests who had served at the pagan shrines were not 00:06:14.968 --> 00:06:19.468 allowed to serve at the Lord's altar in Jerusalem, but they were allowed to eat 00:06:19.468 --> 00:06:21.598 unleavened bread with the other priests. 00:06:22.318 --> 00:06:24.748 Then the king defiled the altar of tophi. 00:06:25.378 --> 00:06:30.268 In the Valley of Ben Ham, so no one could ever again use it to sacrifice 00:06:30.268 --> 00:06:35.668 a son or daughter in the fire As an offering to Molech, he removed from 00:06:35.668 --> 00:06:40.078 the entrance of the Lord's temple, the horse statues that the former kings 00:06:40.078 --> 00:06:42.028 of Judah had dedicated to the son. 00:06:42.958 --> 00:06:45.718 They were near the quarters of Nathan Melech, the eunuch, 00:06:45.898 --> 00:06:47.068 an officer of the court. 00:06:47.878 --> 00:06:51.028 The king also burned the chariots dedicated to the son. 00:06:52.018 --> 00:06:56.128 Josiah tore down the altars that the kings of Judah had built on the palace 00:06:56.128 --> 00:06:58.348 roof above the upper room of Ahaz. 00:06:58.978 --> 00:07:02.338 The king destroyed the altars that Manasses had built in the two 00:07:02.343 --> 00:07:03.958 courtyards of the Lord's temple. 00:07:04.408 --> 00:07:08.848 He smashed them to bits and scattered the pieces in the Kidron Valley. 00:07:09.763 --> 00:07:14.533 The king also desecrated the pagan shrines east of Jerusalem to the south of the 00:07:14.533 --> 00:07:19.033 Mount of corruption, where King Solomon of Israel had built shrines for ash. 00:07:19.033 --> 00:07:24.853 Tore the detestable goddess of the Ians and for mosh, the detestable 00:07:24.853 --> 00:07:29.863 God of the Mo Moabites, and for Molech, the vile God of the Ammonites. 00:07:30.373 --> 00:07:33.973 He smashed the sacred pillars and cut down the as poles. 00:07:34.753 --> 00:07:38.713 Then he desecrated these places by scattering human bones over them. 00:07:39.613 --> 00:07:43.903 The king also tore down the altar at Bethel, the pagan shrine that 00:07:43.903 --> 00:07:46.153 Jar Boams son of Neba had made. 00:07:46.513 --> 00:07:51.163 When he caused Israel to sin, he burned down the shrine and grounded to 00:07:51.163 --> 00:07:54.043 dust, and he burned the ashera pole. 00:07:55.093 --> 00:07:59.413 Then Josiah turned around and noticed several tombs in the side of the hill. 00:08:00.013 --> 00:08:03.793 He ordered that the bones be brought out, and he burned them on the 00:08:03.793 --> 00:08:05.563 altar at Bethel to desecrate it. 00:08:06.538 --> 00:08:09.568 This happened just as the Lord had promised through the man of 00:08:09.568 --> 00:08:13.138 God when Jar Boem stood beside the altar at the festival. 00:08:13.948 --> 00:08:17.398 Then Josiah turned and looked up at the tomb of the man of God 00:08:17.458 --> 00:08:18.928 who had predicted these things. 00:08:19.348 --> 00:08:20.968 What is that monument over there? 00:08:21.058 --> 00:08:26.218 Josiah asked, and the people of the town told him It is the tomb of the 00:08:26.218 --> 00:08:30.358 man of God who came from Judah and predicted the very things that you 00:08:30.358 --> 00:08:32.458 have just done to the alter at Bethel. 00:08:33.268 --> 00:08:35.518 Josiah replied, leave it alone. 00:08:35.938 --> 00:08:37.498 Don't disturb his bones. 00:08:38.128 --> 00:08:42.598 So they did not burn his bones or those of the old prophet from Samaria. 00:08:44.098 --> 00:08:48.448 Then Josiah demolished all the buildings at the Pagan shrines in the towns of 00:08:48.448 --> 00:08:50.908 Samaria, just as he had done at Bethel. 00:08:51.478 --> 00:08:53.878 They had been built by the various kings of Israel. 00:08:54.343 --> 00:08:56.263 And had made the Lord very angry. 00:08:56.743 --> 00:09:00.433 He executed the priests of the pagan shrines on their own altars, 00:09:00.853 --> 00:09:04.183 and he burned human bones on the altars to desecrate them. 00:09:04.873 --> 00:09:07.273 Finally, he returned to Jerusalem. 00:09:08.773 --> 00:09:14.353 King Josiah then issued this order To all the people, you must celebrate 00:09:14.353 --> 00:09:18.733 the Passover to the Lord your God, as required in this book of the Covenant. 00:09:19.513 --> 00:09:24.343 There had not been a Passover celebration like that since the time when the judges 00:09:24.343 --> 00:09:29.413 ruled in Israel, nor throughout all the years of the kings of Israel and Judah. 00:09:30.193 --> 00:09:34.723 But in the 18th year of King Josiah's reign, this Passover was 00:09:34.723 --> 00:09:36.973 celebrated to the Lord in Jerusalem. 00:09:38.128 --> 00:09:42.628 Josiah also got rid of the mediums and psychics, the household gods, 00:09:42.808 --> 00:09:48.028 the idols, and every other kind of detestable practice, both in Jerusalem 00:09:48.148 --> 00:09:49.648 and throughout the land of Judah. 00:09:50.308 --> 00:09:54.778 He did this in obedience to the laws written in the scroll that hel chia the 00:09:54.778 --> 00:09:56.668 priest had found in the Lord's temple. 00:09:57.283 --> 00:10:02.113 Never before had there been a king like Josiah, who turned to the Lord with 00:10:02.113 --> 00:10:08.263 all his heart and soul and strength, obeying all the laws of Moses, and there 00:10:08.263 --> 00:10:10.303 has never been a king like him since. 00:10:11.803 --> 00:10:17.023 Even so the Lord was very angry with Judah because of all the wicked things 00:10:17.023 --> 00:10:18.763 Manasses had done to provoke him. 00:10:19.543 --> 00:10:24.763 For the Lord said, I will also banish Judah from my presence just as I have 00:10:24.763 --> 00:10:29.263 banished Israel and I will reject my chosen city of Jerusalem and the 00:10:29.268 --> 00:10:31.513 temple where my name was to be honored. 00:10:33.343 --> 00:10:38.293 The rest of the events in Josiah's Reign in all his deeds are recorded in the book 00:10:38.293 --> 00:10:39.973 of the history of the Kings of Judah. 00:10:41.023 --> 00:10:46.153 While Josiah was King, Pharaoh, Niko, king of Egypt, went to the Euphrates 00:10:46.153 --> 00:10:48.133 River to help the king of Assyria. 00:10:48.988 --> 00:10:53.878 King Josiah and his army marched out to fight him, but King Niko 00:10:53.878 --> 00:10:55.888 killed him when they met at Megiddo. 00:10:56.848 --> 00:11:01.258 Josiah's officers took his body back in a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem 00:11:01.528 --> 00:11:03.178 and buried him in his own tomb. 00:11:04.168 --> 00:11:08.548 Then the people of the land anointed Josiah's son Jehoahaz 00:11:09.058 --> 00:11:10.558 and made him the next king. 00:11:12.268 --> 00:11:16.468 Jehoahaz was 23 years old when he became king, and he reigned 00:11:16.468 --> 00:11:18.058 in Jerusalem three months. 00:11:18.673 --> 00:11:22.333 His mother was him Mutal, the daughter of Jeremiah from Lyna. 00:11:23.173 --> 00:11:27.643 He did what was evil in the Lord's sight just as his ancestors had done. 00:11:29.503 --> 00:11:34.993 Pharaoh, Niko put Jehoahaz in prison at Rla in the land of Hamoth to 00:11:34.998 --> 00:11:37.003 prevent him from ruling in Jerusalem. 00:11:37.663 --> 00:11:42.703 He also demanded that Judah pay 7,500 pounds of silver and 00:11:42.703 --> 00:11:45.313 75 pounds of gold as tribute. 00:11:47.578 --> 00:11:50.458 This concludes today's Immer Reading experience. 00:11:50.578 --> 00:11:51.808 Thank you for joining us.