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Josiah (/ dʒ oʊ ˈ s aɪ. ə /) [1] [2] or Yoshiyahu [a] was the 16th King of Judah (c. 640 –609 BCE). According to the Hebrew Bible , he instituted major religious reforms by removing official worship of gods other than Yahweh .
The story of Jericho and the rest of the conquest represents the nationalist propaganda of the Kingdom of Judah and their claims to the territory of the Kingdom of Israel after 722 BCE; [3] and that those chapters were later incorporated into an early form of Joshua likely written late in the reign of King Josiah (reigned 640–609 BCE), and ...
From the reign of King Manasseh of Judah until King Josiah, Baal and "the host of heaven" were also worshipped there. [53] Until the reforms of Josiah, there was also a statue for the goddess Asherah (2 Kings 23:6) and priestesses wove ritual textiles for her (2 Kings 23:7).
Manasseh was the first king of Judah who was not contemporary with the northern kingdom of Israel, which the Assyrians had destroyed c. 720 BC, deporting much of its population. He re-instituted polytheistic worship and reversed the religious changes made by his father Hezekiah – hence his condemnation in several biblical verses.
A 17th century icon of Zephaniah. Zephaniah (/ z ɛ f ə ˈ n aɪ. ə /, Hebrew: צְפַנְיָה, Modern: Ṣəfanya, Tiberian: Ṣep̄anyā, "Concealed of/is YHWH"; Greek: Σοφονίας – Sōfənīəs) is the name of several people in the Hebrew Bible; the most prominent being the prophet who prophesied in the days of Josiah, king of Judah (640–609 BCE) and is attributed a book ...
According to an account in 2 Kings (chapter 22) and 2 Chronicles (chapter 34), Hilkiah was High Priest at the Temple in Jerusalem during the reign of King Josiah of Judah (639–609 BC) and the discoverer of "the Book of the Law" in the Temple in the 18th year of Josiah's reign (622 BC). [3]
The snap shows her eight youngest kids — Noah, Maliyah, Nariyah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jonah, Josiah and Makai — wearing crowns and holding up two fingers, to show 11. "Happy birthday to my ...
Jeremiah was known as a prophet from the thirteenth year of Josiah, king of Judah (626 BC), [9] until after the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of Solomon's Temple in 587 BC. [10] This period spanned the reigns of five kings of Judah: Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah. [9]