There were only bad kings in Israel but a few good kings in Judah. Josiah is one of those good kings who strived to do what was right in the sight of God.

1. Josiah

2. Josiah
• Josiah can be found in 2 kings 22, 23 and 2 Chronicles 34, 35
• Kings was originally one book
• Kings was broken down in 5 movement with Josiah being in
the final movement

3. Leading up to Josiah
• Israel has been separated into 2 kingdoms
• Israel in the North
• Judah in the South
• Kings has a criteria of determining good kings
• Do they worship God alone?
• Do they abolish idolatry?
• Are they faithful to the convenant?

4. Good King Score Card
• Northern Kingdom of Israel
• Good kings: 0
• Bad kings: 20
• Southern kingdom of Judah
• Good kings: 8
• Bad kings: 12

5. Judah’s Kings
• Rehoboam followed in his father’s footsteps (1 Kings 14:23)
• Asa was good but left the high places (1 kings 15:9-14)
• Jehoshaphat was good but left the high places (1 kings
22:43)
• This pattern continues with Jehoash, Amaziah, and Jotham.
• Judah’s kings get worse

6. Hezekiah
• Good king
• Crushed the brazen serpent
• He became ill
• Prayed to God and God gave him 15 more years in which
Manasseh was born

7. Manasseh
• Worst king of Judah
• He put idol worship in the temple
• He instituted child sacrifice

8. Amon
• Manasseh's son
• Only reigned 2 years
• His son is Josiah

9. Josiah
• Repair of the temple
• The purge
• Reestablishing the right
• The end