Positivity Successor - Episode 429 - Positivity Successor (2 Chronicles 34-35)

Episode Date: August 28, 2026

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Starting point is 00:00:02 Hey, positive people. Welcome to positivity successor. This is scheduled from Monday through Sunday, including holidays, every season, every year, cool and leap year. Thanks to the light, change your podcast. God bless. Amen. Have a positive day. Welcome to positivity successor episode 429. Continue on with the Bible. Let's get into it. Josiah is Reforms, 34. Josiah was 8 years old when he became king, and he reigned down. in Jerusalem 31 years.
Starting point is 00:00:36 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and walked in the ways of his father, David, not turning aside to the right or to the left. In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young,
Starting point is 00:00:51 he began to seek the God of his father, David. In his 12th year, he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of high places, Astroa Pulse, carved idols and cast images. Under his direction, the altars of the bowels were torn down.
Starting point is 00:01:17 He cut the pieces to the incense altars that were above them and smashed the Astro Puls, the idols, and the images. These he broke to pieces and scattered over the graves of those. who had sacrificed to them. He burned the bones of the priests on their altars. And so he purged Judah in Jerusalem in the towns of Manese, Ephraim and Simeon, as far as nephatali.
Starting point is 00:01:52 And in the ruins around them, he tore down the altars and the ashrapuls and crushed the idols to powder, cut to pieces all the incense altars, throughout Israel. They went back to Jerusalem in the 18th year of Josiah's reign to purify the land and the temple.
Starting point is 00:02:17 He sent Shepan, son of Azalea, and Mazaya, the ruler of the city, with Joa, son of Joahaz, the recorder to repair the temple of the Lord is God. They went to Hokia the high priest and gave him the money that had been brought into the temple of God, which the Levites who were the doorkeepers had collected from the people of Manessi, Ephraim, and the entire remnant of Israel, and from all the people of Judah and Benjamin and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Starting point is 00:03:00 then they entrusted it to the men appointed to supervise the work on the Lord's Temple. These men paid the workers who repaired and restored the temple. They also gave money to the carpenters and builders to purchase dressed stone and timber for joists and beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had all. allowed had allowed to fall into ruin. The men did the work faithfully over them to direct them were Jahath and Abadya. Levites descended from Marari and Zacharya and Meshalam. Descended from Kolhavh. The Levites, all who were skilled in play playing musical instruments,
Starting point is 00:04:02 had charge of the laborers and supervised all the workers from job to job. Some of the Levites were secretaries, scribes, and doorkeepers. The book of the law found, while they were bringing out the money that had been taken into the temple of the Lord. Helchia, the priest, found the book of the law of the Lord that had been given through Moses. Hilkiah said to Shepan the secretary I have found the book of the law in the temple of the
Starting point is 00:04:39 Lord he gave it to Shepan Then Shepan took the book to the king and reported to him Your officials are doing everything that has been committed to them they had paid out the money
Starting point is 00:04:54 that was in the temple of the Lord and have entrusted it to the supervisors and workers Then Shepan, the secretary, informed the king. Hilkiah, the priest, has given me a book, and Shepan read in the presence of the king. When the king heard the words of the law, he tore his robes.
Starting point is 00:05:17 He gave these orders to Hilkiah. Ahika, Ahika, son of Shapan, Abdan, son of mega. Japan, the secretary in Isaiah, Asia, the king's attendant, go and inquire the Lord for me and for the remnant in Israel and Judah about what is written in the book. And this book that has been found great
Starting point is 00:05:49 is the Lord's anger that is poured out on us because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord, that have not acted in accordance with all that is written in this book. Hilke and those the king had sense with him, went to speak to the prophetess, the prophetess. Hoda, who was the priest of Shalom, son of Takath, the son of Hazra, keeper of the wardrobe,
Starting point is 00:06:29 She lived in Jerusalem in the second 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 am going to bring disaster on this place and its people. All the curses written in the book that has been read in the presence of the king of Judah because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other gods.
Starting point is 00:06:59 and provoked me to anger by all that their hands have made. My anger will be poured out on this place and will not be quenched. Tell the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of the Lord. This is what the Lord the God of Israel says concerning the words you heard because your heart was responsive and your humble. humbled yourself before God when you heard what he spoke against this place and it's people and because you humbled yourself before before me and tore your robes and wept in my presence I've heard you declares the Lord now I will gather you to your fathers and you will be buried in peace
Starting point is 00:07:56 your eyes will not see all the disaster I am going to bring on this place and on those who live there. So they took her answer back to the king. Then the king called together all the 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 Levites, all the people from the people from the Lord. the least to the greatest, he read in their hearing all the words, hearing all the words of the book of the
Starting point is 00:08:37 covenant, which had been found in the temple of the Lord. The king stood by his 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, and to obey the words of the covenant written in this book. Then he had everyone in Jerusalem and Benjamin pledge themselves to it. The people of Jerusalem did this in accordance with the covenant of God, the God of their fathers. Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the territory belonging to the Israelites, and he had all who were present in Israel.
Starting point is 00:09:26 the Lord their God. As long as he lived, they did not fail to follow the Lord, the God, their fathers. And that's going to stop. Take back up with Josiah celebrates the Passover 35. People in Bible times. Josiah. Josiah became king of Judah when he was only eight years old. Josiah loves God and carefully followed God's laws.
Starting point is 00:09:56 While he was king, he ordered his. his people to destroy all the altars of the false gods, and he made the temple of God strong and beautiful again. Thanks to you, to understand your episode, Positive, successor. Remember to look back of the reflections to ourselves in the mirror. Remember us look back at the reflection to our souls in the mirror to all the beautiful and handsome people out there, because your work in progress will get you where you want you,
Starting point is 00:10:27 and I believe that. Thanks to tune to Anderson Bowery, our episode Positive, successor. Tune in tomorrow for the next episode. God bless, amen. Tune tomorrow for the next episode, a positive successor. God bless. Amen. Have a positive day.

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