Josiah Renews the Covenant

Jul 15, 2026

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Narrative of Josiah’s rise and spiritual reform, beginning with Judah after the death of King Amon when the people appoint the young Josiah as king at about eight years old. After nearly eighteen years, Josiah repairs the Temple and directs funds collected from the people. In the Temple, God’s law is discovered, read aloud, and triggers Josiah’s grief and resolve to seek guidance from the Lord through the prophetess Huldah, who confirms impending disaster for Jerusalem while sparing Josiah’s life.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryReligion & Spirituality

FormatPDF

Pages19

Reading Time48 min

Josiah Becomes King

Temple Repair and the Discovered Book

Response to God’s Law and Huldah’s Message

072 Josiah Renews the Covenant 2 Kings 21:23-24 2 Kings 22, 23 English Spiritual 072 Josiah Renews the Covenant English © 2020 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) You are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc. Original illustrations by Jim Padgett, © Sweet Publishing licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. [www.sweetpublishing.com](www.sweetpublishing.com) Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. has skin darkened all of the Jim Padgett illustrations in our collection, and has modified some of them. Story script © 2018 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. Template © 2017 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. Music © 2017 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. A special thanks to the 50+ unnamed people who worked on the story scripts, templates, adapted illustrations and music. Many years had passed since the Assyrians destroyed Israel, the northern kingdom. When his officials killed King Amon of Judah, the people made his young son, Josiah, king. At that time, Josiah was only eight years old. After he had been king for nearly eighteen years, Josiah decided to repair the Temple. He sent his secretary, Shaphan, to tell the high priest to pay the men repairing the Temple, using the money collected from the people. After Shaphan had given Hilkiah, the high priest, those orders, the high priest showed Shaphan a book, which he had found in the Temple. It was the book that contained God's law for the people of Israel. Shaphan returned to King Josiah and told him that he had paid the money to the temple construction supervisors. Then he said,“Here is a book that Hilkiah found and gave me.”Shaphan began to read from the book. As he read it, Josiah tore his clothes in dismay. Then Josiah said,“The Lord is very angry with us because our ancestors did not obey the words of this book. Ask the Lord what we are todo.” So, Josiah sent Hilkiah and others to Huldah the prophetess to tell her about what had happened. She told them,“The Lord fully intends to bring disaster on Jerusalem. But he will not do it while Josiah is still alive.”

FAQs

How did Josiah become king of Judah?

After Assyrians destroyed Israel, officials killed Judah’s King Amon. The people made Josiah, his young son, king when he was about eight years old.

What did Josiah decide to do after many years as king?

After nearly eighteen years, Josiah chose to repair the Temple and sent instructions to use money collected from the people for the repairs.

Why did Josiah tear his clothes?

The high priest found a book containing God’s law in the Temple, and Shaphan read from it. As Josiah heard God’s words, he tore his clothes in dismay because their ancestors had not obeyed.

What did Huldah the prophetess tell Josiah’s messengers?

Huldah said the Lord intended to bring disaster on Jerusalem, but that it would not happen while Josiah was still alive.

Jul 15, 2026

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