Positivity Successor - Episode 370 - Positivity Successor (2 Kings 22-23, 23-Mid23)

Episode Date: June 30, 2026

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Hey, positive people. Welcome to positivity successor. Schedule us from Monday through Sunday, including holidays, every season, every year, including Leap Year. Thanks for seeing until the light, changing your podcast. God bless. Amen. Have a positive day. Welcome to Positiveity Successor, Episode 370. Continue now with the Bible. Let's get into it. The Book of the Law Found 22. Josiah was 8 years old when he became king.

and he reigned in Jerusalem 31 years. His mother's name was Juddha, daughter of Adda she was from Bascath. He did what was right

in the eyes of the Lord and walked in all the ways of his father, David, not turning aside to the right or to the left. In the 18th ear of his reign, King Josiah sent the secretary,

Shapan, son of Azalia, the son of Mesulam, to the temple of the Lord. She said, Go up to Hiluia, the high priest and have him gets ready the money

that has been brought into the temple of the Lord, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people, have them entrusted to the men, appointed to supervise the work on the temple, and have these men pay the workers who repair the temple of the Lord, the carpenters, the builders, and the masons. Also have them purchased timber and dressed stone to repair the temple, but they need not account. for the money entrusted to them because they are acting faithfully. Hilkeah, the high priest, said to Chapin, the secretary,

have found the book of the law in the temple of the Lord. He gave it to Chapin, who read it. And Chapin, the secretary, went to the king and reported to him, your officials have paid out the money that was in the temple of the Lord, and have entrusted it to the workers and supervisors at the temple. Then Chapin, the secretary informed the king. Hilkeye, the priest, has given me a book, and Shappan read from it in the presence of the king.

When the king heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his robes. He gave these orders to Hilkeah, the priest. Ahicam, son of Shepan, Akbor, son of Magaya, Shepan, the secretary, and Isaiah, the king's attendant. Go in and inquire of the Lord for me, and for the people and for all Judah, all about what is written in the book that has been found. Great is the Lord's anger. that burns against us because our fathers have now obeyed the words of this book.

They have not acted in accordance with all that is written. They're concerning us. Hilkiah, the priest, Ahikam, Akbore, Shapan, and Asia went to speak to the prophetess Hoda, who is the wife of Shalom, son of Tikva, the son of Harahaz, keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem in the 2nd District. She said to them, this is what the Lord, the God of Israel says. Tell the man who sent you to me. This is what the Lord says.

I'm going to bring disaster on this place and its people. according to everything written in the book of the king of Judah has read because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other gods and provoked me to anger by all the idols their hands have made my anger will burn against this place and will not be quenched tell the king of Judah who sent you to inquire the Lord.

This is what the Lord, the God of Israel says, concerning the words you heard, you heard, because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I have spoken against this place and it's people that they would become accursed and laid waste.

And because you tore your robes and wept in my presence, I've heard you declares the Lord. Therefore, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be buried in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster I'm going to bring on this place. So they took her answer back to the king. Josiah renews the covenant 23. Then the king called together, all the else. elders of Judah and Jerusalem. He went up to the temple of the Lord with the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, the priests and the prophets, all the people from the least to the greatest.

He read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant, which had been found in the temple of the Lord. The king stood by the pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the Lord to follow the Lord and keep his commands, regulations and decrease with all his heart and all his soul. Thus, confirming the words of the covenant written in this book, then all the people pledged themselves to the covenant. The king ordered Hilkea, the high priest, the priests next in rank, and the doorkeepers to removed from the temple of the Lord. All the articles made for Ball and Astra and all the starry hosts. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron Valley and took the ashes to Bethel.

It hid away with the pagon priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem. who buried incense to ball, to the sun and moon, to the constellations, and to all the star hosts. He took the astral uphole from the temple of the Lord to Kid Dron Valley outside Jerusalem and burned it there. He ground it to powder and scoured the dust over the graves of the common people. He also tore down the quarters of the malchrine prostitutes, which were in the temple of the Lord, and where a woman did weaving for Astra. Josiah brought all the priests from the towns of Judah

and deserated the high places, from Geba to Bersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He broke down the shrines at the gates at the gates, the entrance to the gate of Joshua, the city governor, which is on the left of the city gate, although the priests of the high places did not serve at the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem. They ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests. He deserated Topeth, which was in the valley of Beth Hanan, so no one could use it to sacrifice his son or daughter. in the fire to Malesh.

He removed from the entrance to the temple of the Lord, the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the son. They were in courts near the room of an official named Nathan Malesh. Josiah then burned the chariots dedicated to his son. He pulled down the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof near the upper room of Ahaz. In the altars, Manessay had boats in the two courts of the temple of the Lord. He removed them from there, smashed them to pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley. The king also deserated the high places that were east of Jerusalem

on the south of the hill of corruption. The one solo, of king of Israel had built for Astorath the vile goddess of the city on Sidonians for Chimalsh, the vile god of Malab and for Malash, the detestable god of the people of Amon. Josiah smashed the sacred stones and cut down the astra pulse. and covered the sights with human bones. Even the altar at Bethel, the high place made by Jerobam, some of the bat, who had caused Israel to sin. Even that altar in high place, he demolished. He burned the high place and ground it to powder and burned the ashura pole also.

Then Josiah looked around, and when he saw the, the tombs that were there on the hillside, he had the bones removed from them and burned on the altar to defile it. In accordance with the word the Lord proclaimed by the man of God who foretold these things, the king asked, What is the tomb stone I see? The men of the city said, it marks the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and pronounced against the altar. Abethel, the very things you have done to it. Leave it alone, he said. Don't let anyone disturb his bones.

So they spared his bones in those of the prophet who had come from Samaria. That's what we're going to stop. We'll finish up in the next episode. Just as he had done, at Bethel, Josiah removed and defiled all the shrines at the high places that the kings of Israel had built in the towns of Samaria that had provoked the Lord to anger. Josiah slaughtered all the priests of those high places on the altars and burned

human bones on them. Then he went back to Jerusalem. The king gave his disorder to all the people. Celebrate the Passover of the Lord, your God, as it is written in the book of the covenant. Not since the days of the judges, who led Israel, nor throughout the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah, had any such Passover been observed.

But in the 18th year of King Josiah, this Passover was celebrated to the Lord in Jerusalem. Furthermore, Josiah got rid of the mediums and spiritists, the household gods, the idols, and all the other detestable things seen in Jerusalem. Judah and Jerusalem. This he did to fulfill the requirements of the law, written in the book that Hillica, the priest had discovered in the temple of the Lord. Neither before nor after Josiah was there, a king like him who turned to the Lord as he did with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength in accordance

with all the law of Moses. guess we're going to stop. We'll finish up to 24 in the next episode. Thanks for tuning to Nairnesty and Bowery, another episode, Positive, successor. Remember, to look back of the reflections of yourselves in the mirror to all the beautiful and handsome people out there because you're a work in progress and we'll get to what you want to

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