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2 Kings 22:1-3
New Catholic Bible
2 Kings 22:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 22
Reign of Josiah.[a] 1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah, and she was the daughter of Adaiah from Bozkath.
2 He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and he walked in the ways of David, his father. He did not wander off to the right or to the left.
The Book of the Law.[b] 3 During the eighteenth year of the reign of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan the scribe, the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, to the temple. He said,
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- 2 Kings 22:1 Josiah, a new David and a new Hezekiah, is a king according to God’s heart. The reader desiring to follow the religious developments and political vicissitudes of this final period of the kingdom of Judah should read the relevant passages in Jeremiah, which make known the positions taken by the prophet as events followed ever faster on one another. See also 2 Chr 34–35.
- 2 Kings 22:3 The Book is Deuteronomy, the “Second Law,” which repeated the law of Moses while adapting it. More accurately, perhaps, the book is the central, legislative part of Deuteronomy, which in fact inspires the reform then effected by Josiah. It must have been hidden or lost, or in any case forgotten, during the wicked reign of Manasseh.
