King Josiah of Judah (640-609) is a character of immense importance for the history of ancient Israel and Judah. A sixteenth-generation lineal descendant of King David, Josiah became king as a child of only eight years old and soon focused attention to the God of David, in contrast to his father Amon, and grandfather Manasseh who had overturned all of the honorable reforms of his noble great-grandfather Hezekiah. One would think that Josiah would follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather's wicked ways. They had practiced child sacrifice, witchcraft, and consultation of spiritual mediums. There were many sites that stood throughout his kingdom that were places for idolatrous worship such as shrines to Baal, Asherah, astral deities, and numerous other abominations to Yahweh. However, it was at age 15 that he began to search for the God of David and at age 19; he undertook reforms to end idol worship in his land and removed Jerusalem's shrines to Asherah and Baal. In 622 B.C., in the eighteenth year of his reign, Josiah authorized the restoration of Jerusalem's Temple. As his workforce was cleaning, they found a Torah scroll that no one had ever heard of. This scroll is commonly identified as a form of Deuteronomy and became the foundation of a grand plan of religious reform and national reestablishment in which all pagan sites of worship were destroyed throughout Israel. He made the Jerusalem Temple the chief place of worship while attempting to reunite Israel and Judah as an independent monarchy under the royal house of David. "Before him there was no king like him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him," says 2 Kings 23:25 of Josiah which is a praise unequal to any other biblical king.
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It is not easy to express sufficiently the scale of the achievements of Josiah's reign.
He was the tenth son of soap maker, Josiah Franklin. Benjamin's mother was Abiah Folger, the second wife of Josiah. In all, Josiah would father 17 children. Josiah intended for Benjamin to enter into the clergy. ... He signed the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and was our first Foreign Ambassador when visited King Louis XVI. ...
During King Philip's war, there were many acts of violence. ... At the time of the trial, Alexander stayed in Josiah Winslow's house. After leaving Josiah Winslow's house, Alexander became ill and died. ... Philip's hatred started King Philip's War. ... This added to King Philips hatred. ...
> Kings in the middle of the reign of King Jehoram. The events mentioned in the Elisha cycle seem to take longer than the reign of King Jehoram and don't seem to mesh with what was happening during his reign, either. ... One of these theories is that the Elisha cycle started during the reign of King Jehoram, and it went through to the King Joash and King Jehu. ... (Freedman, 71 vol.4) This has been questioned many times and the current belief is that it was written during the time of Josiah's reforms, toward the end of the seventh century B.C.E. ...
The story of Moses also carries a 7th century feeling to it, being that his confrontation with the Egyptian pharaohs is very similar to that of confrontations between King Josiah and the Pharoe Necho (pg 71). ... In fact, the events probably occurred (or were made) during the time of King Josiah in the age of 7th to 6th centuries BC. The Bible is indeed a mixture of myths, historical fragments and propaganda about people such as the Canaanites made by King Josiah to connect him (not truthfully) with what one might say was the "golden era" of Israel when they rose up as a powerful and advance...
One possibility is either King Solomon and/or Josiah preemptively hid the ark before the Babylonian invasion with its present whereabouts unknown. The other theory is that the ark was taken by the Ethiopian ruler, Menelik I, son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba where it remains hidden away in a church. ... When she learns of King Solomon's reputation for spiritual wisdom, she is intrigued and travels to test his knowledge. ... King Solomon was known for his "tireless appetite for women " (Backman, 81). ... This is the same time in which the meeting of the Queen of Sheba and King So...
The story takes place in the third year of the reign of Jehoikakim king of Judah. ... Jehoiakim's son Jehoiachin then succeeded him as king. ... Nebuchadnezzar then made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's uncle, king and changed his name to Zedekiah. ... Jehoaz is made king in Jerusalem in place of Josiah, his father. He reigned in Jerusalem for three months because the king of Egypt dethroned him. ...
> Kings in the middle of the reign of King Jehoram. The events mentioned in the Elisha cycle seem to take longer than the reign of King Jehoram and don't seem to mesh with what was happening during his reign, either. ... One of these theories is that the Elisha cycle started during the reign of King Jehoram, and it went through to the King Joash and King Jehu. ... (Freedman, 71 vol.4) This has been questioned many times and the current belief is that it was written during the time of Josiah's reforms, toward the end of the seventh century B.C.E. ...
His father, Josiah, was a candlemaker and a skillful mechanic. His mother, Abiah Ben's parents raised thirteen children--the survivors of Josiah's seventeen children by two wives (#1). ... When he went to England in 1757 as agent of the Pennsylvania Assembly, he was alarmed to hear Lord Granville, president of the Privy Council, declare that for the colonies, the king's instructions were "the Law of the Land: for the King is the Legislator of the Colonies," (#2). ... When the British Parliament passed the Tea Act (1773), that hurt the colonial merchants, Franklin protested in a ...
He went to school as a child with the intent of becoming a minister, as his father, Josiah, intended. ... Parents - Ben's parents were named Josiah and Abiah. ... Josiah's second wife, she mothered ten children with him. ... Josiah took a large interest in Benjamin, teaching how to debate and how to write effectively. ... Josiah taught Ben the crucial skill of debate, which would forever more come in handy. ...
