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27 because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its inhabitants, and you humbled yourself before Me, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard you,” says the aLord.  
28 “Surely I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace; and your eyes shall not see all the calamity which I will bring on this place and its inhabitants.” ’ ” So they brought back word to the king.

Josiah Restores True Worship

29 aThen the king sent and gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.  
30 The king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem—the priests and the Levites, and all the people, great and small. And he aread in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant which had been found in the house of the Lord.  
31 Then the king astood in bhis place and made a ccovenant before the Lord, to follow the Lord, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.  
32 And he made all who were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin take a stand. So the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
33 Thus Josiah removed all the aabominations from all the country that belonged to the children of Israel, and made all who were present in Israel1 diligently serve the Lord their God. bAll his days they did not depart from following the Lord God of their fathers. 
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No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for 2 Chronicles 34:29.

II Chronicles 34:29-32

We have another spiritual emergency, and so Josiah, like Hezekiah, in his zeal for God, forced the leaders of Judah to follow God. Just like Hezekiah had to do, Josiah had to use the power of his office as king to make the people do what was right.

Josiah was not pussyfooting around. He was using the power of his office as king, and he made them do it.

What we have here is a dictatorship. It was not just a king ruling. He simply took over the nation, lock, stock, and barrel. As in the time of Hezekiah, a crisis was reached. Either their sins had to be purged, or a calamity of going into captivity was going to very shortly occur. We have a national emergency, and in this national emergency Josiah acted as he did.

Excerpted from Passover (Part 8)

 
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