Hello and welcome to the scriptures a real podcast. This is the podcast where we talk about

elements of the scriptures that have made it become very real to us so that we can draw more

power out of it. I'm your host, Carrie Mulesstein, and this is a

short cast. It's kind of a different setting for lots of various reasons. I'm doing this

outside where there are other noises and so on. It won't be the best video or audio quality,

but it will also be short. There's just, I actually kind of thought I was done with doing

episodes for this week. And then I thought

about it more. I thought there's one little subject that is worth addressing because it helps

you understand lots of other things. So, and that's the reign of King Josiah. So King Josiah, after

King Hezekiah, who was a very, very righteous king and went through all sorts of reforms.

And then his son, Manasseh, was a very, very wicked king.

And he fostered idolatry in all sorts of ways.

At least in the Second Chronicles account, we get the notion that he eventually repented and

try to do things better. But this is after

tradition holds he killed Isaiah. He pushed idolatry in all sorts of ways and was the most

wicked of all the kings of Israel or Judah. In any case, then his son takes the throne and then

Josiah takes the throne. And Josiah is a very righteous king.

In fact, the book of Kings, Second Kings, describes, first of all,

Hezekiah as the most righteous king ever, no more righteous kings before him or after him.

And then it uses the same description of Josiah.

Many people think this gives us a clue, and I'm kind of inclined to agree with this,

as to some of the phases of composition of first and second kings that maybe it began and had the majority

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