The Importance of Josiah

Hezekiah faced internal dissent for seeking to stand up to the Assyrians, but in the end he was glad that he did. King Josiah obliterated idols to Baal, Ashira, and other popular Canaanite deities. He slaughtered renegade priests; made sure everyone was celebrating Passover. For a time it seems as you read the end of the Protestant Book of Second Kings, that Josiah is it, who will usher in a holy era. But unfortunately, as Assyria, the monster, often in the shadows of the historical books reeled due to foreign invasions, Egypt came up into Canaan, attacked Judah, and killed King Josiah.