With the power of A yria now greatly weakened, if not completely broken (629-624 B.C.), Josiah aimed not only for a religious reformation but also …

Idolatry eradicated. This brief account is parallel to 2 Kings 23:4–20.

And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and
Simeon, even unto Naphtali
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Since the years of infancy cannot be useful to our fellow creatures, our earliest youth should be dedicated to God, so that we may not waste any of…