2 Kings 23

Treated in 4 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 23:3 The king stood by the pillar and made the covenant in the presence of the LORD: to follow the LORD and to keep his commandments, his decrees and his statutes with all his heart and all his being, and so to carry out the words of this covenant written in this book. And all the people committed themselves to the covenant. 1
  • 23:6 He took the Asherah pole out of the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem. He burned it there in the Kidron Valley, ground it to dust and threw the dust on the graves of the common people. 1
  • 23:16 As Josiah turned around, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent men to take the bones out of the tombs. He burned them on the altar and so defiled it, in keeping with the word of the LORD that the man of God had cried out when he foretold these things. 1
  • 23:25 Before him there was no king like him, who turned to the LORD with his whole heart, with his whole being, and with all his strength, in keeping with all the law of Moses; and after him no one like him arose. 1

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Where it is preached

  1. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.2 The Second Commandment cites 2 Kings 23: 6

    …of the saints of old. Josiah, that renowned king, destroyed the groves and images. 2 Kings 23: 6, 24. Constantine abrogated the images set up in temples. The Christians destroyed images…

  2. Tell Me the Story – Book 3: Kings and Prophets · Ochorus Originals

    Josiah, the Boy King cites 2 Kings 23:25

    …after Josiah was there any king like him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart.” — 2 Kings 23:25 Can you imagine being a king when you are eight years old? That’s how old Josiah was when…

  3. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    XII. Gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice cites 2 Kings 23:3

    …to God universally and perseveringly, Exod. 19:8, and 24:3, 7, Deut. 26:16, 17, 18, 2 Kings 23:3, Neh. 10:28, 29, Psal. 119:57, 106. They ought to profess, that all their hearts and…

  4. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 24 — Election Confirmed by the Calling of God cites 2 Kings 23:16

    …in Manasseh when Jerusalem was dyed and almost deluged with the blood of the prophets? (2 Kings 23:16); in the thief who only with his last breath thought of repentance? (Luke 23:42). Have…