Wednesday Bible Study: Yahweh cleans up

Having " discovered " the book of the law they had just written, Josiah and his priests set out to establish worship of Yahweh according to the Torah law as the sole religious practice in Judah, and to cleanse the kingdom of all traces of worship of other gods. This involves, as usual, slaughtering a lot of people, but that ' s righteousness in Yahweh ' s world. I can ' t prove it, but I believe this was supposed to end with verse 25, with the panegyric to King Josiah.. There may have been a closing statement, which has been replaced. That would be the appropriate denouement to the entire plot, and explain why Josiah had this written. (Remember that the division into chapters happened in medieval Europe.) However, subsequent events required that the remaining material be added. As a heads up, the next chapter is the last.23 Then the king sent, and all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem were gathered to him.2 And the king went up to the house of theLord, and with him all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests and the prophets, all the people, both small and great; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant which had been found in the house of theLord.3 And the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before theLord, to walk after theLord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in th...
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