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Josiah’s Passover Compared with the Days of the Judges — 2 Kings 23:22 Bible Study | Divine Threads

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2 Kings 23:22

Josiah’s Passover Compared with the Days of the Judges

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An Extraordinary Passover—and Judgment Still Coming

Josiah celebrates a Passover of exceptional conformity and devotion, yet the LORD’s announced judgment on Judah is not revoked. Josiah launches the most sweeping reform narrated in Kings, renews covenant, purges illicit worship, fulfills the old prophecy against Bethel, and celebrates an extraordinary Passover. Yet even this exemplary reform does not erase the accumulated judgment announced against Judah; the tension prepares the reader for exile and for a greater solution than another temporary reforming king.