II Chronicles 34:30

Year 2 Week 100 Josiah and God's Lost Book

Scriptures: II Chronicles 34, 35, II Kings 22, 23

Key Verse: II Chronicles 34:30 " The king went up to the house of the LORD, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem -- the priests and the Levites, and all the people, great and small. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant which had been found in the house of the LORD."

Key Points:

1. Josiah became king at the age of eight. He followed God and sought to do what was right. In the twelfth year of his reign (at age 20), he began to remove the idols from the land of Judah.

2. In the eighteenth year of his reign, Josiah began the restoration of the temple. During the repairs, Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law and sent it to Josiah. After Josiah heard the words of the Law, he was very afraid. He understood how much his fathers sinned against God and the destruction God promised as a consequence. Josiah asks Huldah, a prophetess of God, about the promised consequences. She sends word back saying that although God would pour out His wrath, Josiah would not have to live through it because he . humbled himself and was tender hearted towards the truth.

3. Josiah went to the temple and called the people of Judah together and read all of the Book of the Covenant to them. After he ﬁnished reading, he made a covenant to follow God and keep his commandments. That year, Josiah kept the Passover according to God's instructions (2Chronicles 35). No Passover had been kept so carefully since Samuel was alive.

4. Josiah was killed in battle. The peeple of Judah mourned for him. During his reign, they had been faithful to God. FOld my arms.

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What happened when King Josiah ordered the temple to be cleaned?

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King Josiah was only 26 years old when he decided to repair the Temple of the Lord. Carpenters, builders, and stoneworkers began to work. While clearing out the Temple, they found something very important. To see what they found, black out all the letters in the broken bricks and fallen timbers. Then transfer the letters left in the saws, chisels and ham- mers to the spaces below. . JOSIAH (2 KINGS 22:1-2; 23:1-30) MEMORY VERSE: "Now before him there was no king like him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his might. " 2 KINGS 23:25 TRUE OR FALSE: 1. “Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem." 2 KINGS 22:1 TRUE OR FALSE

2. "He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right hand orto the la ." 2 KINGS 22:2 TRUE OR FALSE CIRCLE THE CORRECT WORDS: 3. Josiah "the king went up to the house of the LORD with all the men of Judah, and with him all the inhabitants of Jerusalem- the priests and prophets and all the people, both small and great; and he (READ, FED) in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant which had been found in the house of the LORD." 2 KINGS 23:2 4. "Then the king stood by a pillar. and made a (CAKE COVENANT) before the LORD, to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book." 2 KINGS 23:3

TRUE OR FALSE: 5. But none of the people took their stand for the covenant. 2 KINGS 23:3 TRUE OR FALSE 6. "And the king commanded Hilklah the high priest, the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the articles that were made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven." 2 KINGS 23:4 TRUE OR FALSE

7. "And he burned them outside Jerusakem in the ﬁelds of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel." 2 KINGS 23:4 TRUE OR FALSE

CIRCLE THE CORRECT WORDS: 8. "Then he removed the idolatrous priests whom the (KINGS, GOD) of Judah had ordained to burn incense on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem." 2 KINGS 23:5 9. "And he brought out the wooden (IMAGE, MIRAGE) from the house of the LORD, to the Brook Kidron outside Jerusalem, burned it at the Brook Kidron and ground it to ashes, and threw its ashes on the graves of the common people." 2 KINGS 23:6 10. "As Josiah turned, he saw the (COMBS, TOMBS) that were there on the mountain." 2 KINGS 23:16

11. "Then he said, 'What gravestone is this that I see?‘ And the men of the city told him, 'It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you have done against the (PEOPLE, ALTAR) of Bethel.‘ “ 2 KINGS 23:17 12. "Now before him there was no king like him, who turned to the (LORD, WORLD) with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his might." 2 KINGS 23:25 1/2 JOSIAH (2 KINGS 22:1-2; 23:1-30) CBZEZNYBBNBIIDD OJHCZBCGFOVYRTS VQERLUOSHRDROMT

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