Quotes About Faith

He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.

And he removed from the entrance to the house of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near the chamber of an official named Nathan-melech. And Josiah burned up the chariots of the sun.

He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.

On the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

The king commanded all the people, “Keep the Passover of the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”

But in the eighteenth year of Josiahís reign, this Passover was observed to the LORD in Jerusalem.

Furthermore, Josiah removed the mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this to carry out the words of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the LORD.

Neither before nor after Josiah was there any king like him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, according to all the Law of Moses.

As for the rest of the acts of Josiah, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his fathers had done.

And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiahís eleventh year.

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.

And the king provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life.

Adam, Seth, Enosh,

Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,

Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech.

Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.

So from Shem came Arphaxad, Shelah,

Serug, Nahor, Terah,

and Abram (that is, Abraham).

The sons of Abraham were Isaac and Ishmael.

Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

Magdiel, and Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom.