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May 29, 2020 · From the Hebrew name יֹאשִׁיָהוּ (Yoshiyahu) meaning " Yahweh supports". In the Old Testament this is the name of a king of Judah famous for his religious reforms. He was killed fighting the Egyptians at Megiddo in the 7th century BC. In England this name came into use after the Protestant Reformation.
2 Chronicles 34. Josiah’s Reforms. 1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and followed the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or to the left. 3 In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to ...
May 9, 2018 · JOSIAH. JOSIAH , or, in Hebrew, Yo ʾ shiyyahu, was a king of Judah (c. 640 – 609 bce). Josiah came to the throne at eight years of age upon the assassination of his father, Amon. The account of his reign in 2 Kings 22 – 23 is almost entirely taken up with a presentation of his cultic reform program in the eighteenth year.
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath. And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left. And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah ...
Jul 14, 2011 · Josiah became king at a spiritually and politically bleak point in Judah’s history—a succession of (with a few exceptions) wicked kings had led the nation steadily away from Yahweh, while defeat and exile loomed on the horizon. Yet in the midst of this gloom, God introduced a ray of light. While repairing the temple in Jerusalem, the people ...
Josiah definition: a king of Judah, reigned 640?–609? b.c. 2 Kings 22.. See examples of JOSIAH used in a sentence.
