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2 Kings 22
Book of Kings
2 Kings 22:1 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.
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Josiah's did that which was right in the sight
of the Lord, and walked in all the way of David
his father
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Eight years = Manasseh began at twelve, bred
under godly Hezekiah. Josiah began at eight,
bred by ungodly Amon.
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2 Kings 16:2 Twenty years old was
Ahaz when he began to reign, and
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and
did not that
which was right in the sight of the LORD his
God, like David his father.
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2 Chronicles 17:3 And the LORD was with
Jehoshaphat, because he
walked in the first ways of his father David,
and sought not unto Baalim;
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2 Chronicles 29:1 Hezekiah began
to reign when he was five and twenty years old,
and he reigned nine and twenty years in
Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
3 He in the first year of his reign,
in the first month, opened the doors of the
house of the LORD, and repaired them.
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He is called Abijah in Chronicles, Abijam in
Kings. He began to reign B.C. 959, and reigned
three years. He endeavored to recover
the kingdom of the Ten Tribes, and made
war on Jeroboam.
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Abijah = My Father is God
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He was successful in battle, and took several of
the cities of Israel. We are told that he walked
in all the sins of Rehoboam.
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2 Chronicles 12:16 And Rehoboam slept
with his fathers, and was buried in the city of
David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.
2 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.
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Josiah did that which was right in the sight of
the Lord, he was the first king to do this
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Turned not aside = Josiah is the only king of
whom this is said about
3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah,
that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of
Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying,
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Jeremiah was called into Josiah's thirteenth year
and was to Josiah what Isaiah had been to
Hezekiah.
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Shaphan = Eight
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Jeremiah 1:2 To whom the word of the Lord came
in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of
Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
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Jeremiah 25:3 From the thirteenth year of
Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto
this day, that is the three and twentieth year,
the word of the Lord hath come unto me, and I
have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking;
but ye have not hearkened.
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Jeremiah was called in Josiah's thirteenth year,
and was to Josiah what Isaiah had been to
Hezekiah.
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Shaphan = Eight relatives mentioned in 2
Kings and 2 Chronicles:
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(1) His grandfather, Meshullam (2Ki 22:3)
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(2) his father, Azaliah (verse 3);
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(3) his son, Ahikam (verse12);
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(4) his son, Gemariah (Jeremiah 36:10);
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(5) his son, Elasah (Jeremiah 29:3);
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(6) his son, Jaazaniah (Ezekiel 8:11);
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(7) his grandson, Michaiah (Jeremiah 36:11, 13)
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(8) his grandson, Gedaliah (Jeremiah 39:43)
4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver
which is brought into the house of the Lord, which the keepers
of the door have gathered of the people:
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Hilkiah = The son of Shallum and father of
Azariah
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Sum = pour out, or pay away
5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the
work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord: and let
them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of
the Lord, to repair the breaches of the house,
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Of the doers = These were the
overseers = to the doers = These were the
labourers.
6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber
and hewn stone to repair the house.
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The house = "the breaches of the house",
as in verse
5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the
work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord: and let
them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of
the Lord, to repair the breaches of the house,
7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money
that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt
faithfully.
8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I
have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And
Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
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The book of the law = the original copy
of the Pentateuch, laid up by the side of the
Ark.
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Probably secreted during the reigns of Manasseh
and Amon
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2 Kings 21:16 Moreover Manasseh
shed innocent blood very much, till he
had filled Jerusalem from one end to another;
beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin,
in doing that which was evil in the
sight of the LORD.
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Deuteronomy 31:24 And it came to pass, when
Moses had made an end of writing the words of
this law in a book, until they were finished,
25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare
the ark of the covenant of the Lord,
saying,
26 Take this book of the law, and put it
in the side of the ark of the covenant of the
Lord your God, that it may be there for
a witness against thee.
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2 Kings 21:18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own
house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
19 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two
years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of
Haruz of Jotbah.
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Amon was twenty and two years old when he began
to reign
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He did that which
was evil in the sight of the
Lord,
20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord,
as his father
Manasseh did.
21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols
that his father served, and worshipped them:
22 And he forsook the Lord God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the
Lord.
23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own
house.
24 And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon;
and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king
word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that
was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of
them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of
the Lord.
10 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the
priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the
king.
11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the
book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son
of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the
scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,
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Ahikara = The friend of Jeremiah and father of
Gedaliah
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Achbor = Not the same person as Abdon, in
13 Go ye, enquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and
for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found:
for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us,
because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this
book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning
us.
14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan,
and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of
Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the
wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they
communed with her.
15 And she said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel,
Tell the man that sent you to me,
16 Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this
place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of
the book which the king of Judah hath read:
17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto
other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the
works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled
against this place, and shall not be quenched.
18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the
Lord, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the Lord God of
Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;
19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself
before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against this
place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should
become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and
wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the Lord.
20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and
thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes
shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place.
And they brought the king word again.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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