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In Second Kings, chapter twenty-two, verse eight, the “book of the law” found by Hilkiah had been “given by Moses,” as in Second Chronicles, thirty-four, verse fourteen. It was most likely a copy of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible, as in Deuteronomy thirty-one, stanzas nine through twelve, and twenty-four to twenty-six. […]

In Second Kings, chapter twenty-two, verse three, Josiah’s dedication at twenty-six years of age reveals that a young person can have a zeal for the Lord and His cause equal to or greater than many older adults. When Josiah sent Shaphan, the secretary of state, into the temple in the eighteenth year of his reign,

In Second Kings, chapter twenty-two, verse one, Josiah was the last of the righteous kings of Judah. At the early age of sixteen, he began earnestly to seek the Lord, as in Second Chronicles thirty-four, verse three, and four years later, he began to purge Judah of false worship in verses three to four of

In Second Kings, chapter twenty-one, verse fourteen, Judah was the focus of redemptive history at this time, forming what remains of God’s elected people. Like the northern kingdom, however, a large number of them, by worshipping false gods, cast aside the salvation that God had prepared for them. Only those who persevere in genuine faith

In Second Kings, chapter twenty-one, verse ten, Isaiah was probably still prophesying during Manasseh’s time. Among other things, a prophet was a voice for righteousness when God’s people were conforming to worldly ways. The Lord, therefore, announced through the prophets, to the rebellious and idolatrous nation, the destruction of Jerusalem and the deliverance of Judah

In Second Kings, chapter twenty-one, verse nine, during his long reign of fifty-five years, Manasseh plunged Judah into its darkest era of idolatry. This wicked king had nothing but contempt for the God of his father, Hezekiah. He led God’s people into greater evil than the pagan nations that Joshua had destroyed. Why did God

In Second Kings, chapter twenty, verse seventeen, the fulfillment of Isaiah’s prediction of Judah’s exile unto Babylon was about one hundred and fifteen years later, when Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon, destroyed Jerusalem, stripped the land and temple of all their riches and took the people of Judah away as captives to his nation, as in

In Second Kings, chapter nineteen, verse nineteen, Hezekiah’s prayer for the glory of God and the vindication of His ways and purposes in history manifests the highest desire of all who love the Lord. Moses, in Exodus thirty-two, verse twelve, Numbers fourteen, verses thirteen through sixteen, and Deuteronomy nine, verses twenty-six to twenty-nine, and David

In Second Kings, chapter nineteen, verse fifteen, Hezekiah took the defiant letter that demanded Jerusalem’s surrender, spread it out before the Lord, and prayed earnestly to Him. Hezekiah received the letter and went up into the house of the Lord. After reading it, he hastened into the temple, spread it in the childlike confidence of

In Second Kings, chapter nineteen, verse one, Hezekiah had great confidence in God as in chapter eighteen, verse five. Faced with the threat of the Assyrians in the same chapter from verses seventeen through thirty-seven and horrified at the mockery of the Lord in verses thirty to thirty-five, he turned to God. Hezekiah petitioned Isaiah