Before [Josiah] there was no king like him who turned to the Lord with all his mind and with all his heart and with all his strength according to the law of Moses, and no one like him arose after him.
(2 Kings 23:25)
But his reforms were short-lived.
At the end of this chronicle Babylon charges in, Jerusalem is decimated, and the people are sent into exile.
Maybe they should have followed God. Maybe we should listen.
Read it here.
no empire is so secure as to survive abandoning God.
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