Trouvé 53 Résultats pour: Josiah
and at Yahweh's command this man denounced the altar. 'Altar, altar,' he said, 'Yahweh says this, "A son is to be born to the House of David, Josiah by name, and on you he will slaughter the priests of the high places who have offered sacrifice on you, and on you he will burn human bones." (1 Kings 13, 2)
The people of the country, however, slaughtered all those who had plotted against King Amon and proclaimed his son Josiah as his successor. (2 Kings 21, 24)
He was buried in his father's tomb in the Garden of Uzza; his son Josiah succeeded him. (2 Kings 21, 26)
Josiah was eight years old when he came to the throne, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah, of Bozkath. (2 Kings 22, 1)
In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent the secretary Shaphan son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam to the Temple of Yahweh. (2 Kings 22, 3)
On looking round, Josiah saw the tombs there on the hillside; he had the bones fetched from the tombs and burned them on the altar. This he rendered unsanctified, in accordance with the word of Yahweh which the man of God had proclaimed when Jeroboam was standing by the altar at the time of the feast. On looking round, Josiah caught sight of the tomb of the man of God who had foretold these things. (2 Kings 23, 16)
Josiah also destroyed all the shrines on the high places which were in the towns of Samaria and which the kings of Israel had built to provoke Yahweh's anger; he treated these places exactly as he had treated the one at Bethel. (2 Kings 23, 19)
The eighteenth year of King Josiah was the only time when such a Passover was celebrated in Yahweh's honour in Jerusalem. (2 Kings 23, 23)
What is more, the spirit-guides and mediums, the household gods and idols, and all the abominations to be seen in the country of Judah and in Jerusalem, were swept away by Josiah to give effect to the words of the Law written in the book found by the priest Hilkiah in the Temple of Yahweh. (2 Kings 23, 24)
The rest of the history of Josiah, his entire career, is this not recorded in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah? (2 Kings 23, 28)
In his times, Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt was advancing to meet the king of Assyria at the River Euphrates, and King Josiah went to intercept him; but Necho killed him at Megiddo in the first encounter. (2 Kings 23, 29)
His retainers carried his body from Megiddo by chariot; they brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. The people of the country then took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and anointed him, proclaiming him king in succession to his father. (2 Kings 23, 30)