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Today we're wrapping up the book of Second Chronicles

with chapters 34 through 36.

Scott, what happens in today's chapters? There's a lot that happens

in these chapters, shall we? A lot that happens in these chapters. Love to hear it. Favorite phrase.

Yeah, we get to King Josiah today. He's a great king, the last great king of the Southern Kingdom of

Judah. And he's devoted to worship. He's devoted to the temple. He rids the land of idols. He repairs the temple. And it's interesting, though, that while the people are in the temple repairing it, we read that the book of the law is discovered. Yeah, I had a question about that. Does that mean that the book of the law had been lost? Or what does it mean here that it's been discovered?

That's a good question. And so, yeah, it seems like, you know, at this time, like,

sometimes religious texts would be placed into the walls of a temple and, you know, they'd be

uncovered during renovations, which is probably what's happening here. You know, we're not

exactly sure what they found. A lot of people think it's the

book of Deuteronomy, or at least some of it was. Could have been other portions of the first

five books of the Bible as well. Regardless, though, when it's read to Josiah, he kind of freaks out

because he realizes just how far his kingdom has turned from the Lord. And so he ramps up his reforms

even more so. He has the law read to all the people who commit to obeying it. You have this

prophet Holda who assures him that because he loves the Lord, disaster won't strike during

Josiah's day, but it will strike as the rest of Second Chronicles shows us.

Yeah, so as we keep going through today's reading, Josiah is followed by several other kings

who, you know, aren't necessarily glowing examples for us. And then we eventually see that the

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