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    One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Josiah. Every Josiah in the Bible

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    Josiah

    יֹאשִׁיָּ֫הוּἸωσίας

    Josiah was a king of Judah who instituted significant religious reforms and repaired the temple.

    Illustration2 Kings 22Josiah reacts to the reading of the recovered Book of the Law with torn clothes.
    verses
    49
    first named
    1 Kings 13:2
    last named
    Matthew 1:11
    period
    Divided Monarchy
    tribe
    Judah

    Description

    Who was Josiah?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Josiah was a king of Judah who reigned from approximately 640 to 609 BC. He was the son of Amon and the grandson of Manasseh (2Ki.21.24, 26; 1Ch.3.14). Josiah became king at the age of eight and reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem (2Ki.22.1; 2Ch.34.1).

    Josiah is best known for his religious reforms and his commitment to following the Law of the Lord. In the eighteenth year of his reign, Josiah initiated repairs to the temple (2Ki.22.3-7; 2Ch.34.8-13). During these repairs, the Book of the Law was discovered (2Ki.22.8-13; 2Ch.34.14-21). Upon hearing the words of the Law, Josiah tore his clothes in repentance and sought the guidance of the prophetess Huldah (2Ki.22.11-20; 2Ch.34.22-28).

    Josiah then led a comprehensive religious reform, removing pagan worship sites, idols, and practices from Judah and Jerusalem (2Ki.23.1-25; 2Ch.34.29-35:19). He renewed the covenant between the people and God and celebrated the Passover with great dedication (2Ki.23.21-23; 2Ch.35.1-19).

    Josiah's reign and reforms were praised by the prophets, including Jeremiah and Zephaniah (Jer.1.2; 3.6; 22.11, 18; 25.1, 3; 26.1; 35.1; 36.1-2, 9; Zep.1.1). However, Josiah's life came to a tragic end when he confronted Pharaoh Necho of Egypt at Megiddo and was killed in battle (2Ki.23.29-30; 2Ch.35.20-27). He was succeeded by his son Jehoahaz (2Ki.23.30; 2Ch.36.1).

    Despite the reforms Josiah implemented, Judah's unfaithfulness persisted, and the nation ultimately faced the Babylonian exile (2Ki.23.26-27; Jer.25.1-14). Nonetheless, Josiah is remembered as a righteous king who sought to turn the nation back to God.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Josiah 10 of 21 entities the graph connects to Josiah, in 2 groups: kinship 3, events 7. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.DavidChild of · 2 events · 964 versesZedekiahFather of · 53 versesJehoiakimFather of · 37 versesKinshipIsrael2 events · 2,578 versesJudah4 events · 1,023 versesJerusalem13 events · 888 versesLevi3 events · 329 versesPriest3 events · 202 versesJeremiah2 events · 124 versesShaphan9 events · 23 versesEventsJosiah

    The 10 best-attested of 21 are drawn. All 21 are listed below.

    Child of

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    Stands in the same events as

    and 37 more, ordered by how many events they share.

    Places

    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Josiah happens All 5 places the claims about Josiah reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Jerusalem, Megiddo, Bethel, Euphrates, Samaria. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Josiah there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.JerusalemMegiddoBethelEuphratesSamaria
    Divided MonarchyAll 5 places the claims about Josiah reach

    The pattern

    Where Josiah is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 49 verses across 7 of 66 books; 59 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKS1 KINGS–2 CHRONICLES30 VERSESJEREMIAH16 VERSES9 books and 342 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 49 verses across 7 of 66 books; 59 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKS1 KINGS–2 CHRONICLES30 VERSESJEREMIAH16 VERSES9 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Josiah is named in 49 verses, and the name is written 54 times in them — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 59 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 49, across 7 books. The name is written 54 times in them.

    1. 1 Kings1 verse

      13:2

    2. 2 Kings12 verses

      21:2421:2622:122:323:1623:1923:2323:2423:2823:2923:3023:34

    3. 1 Chronicles2 verses

      3:143:15

    4. 2 Chronicles15 verses

      33:2534:134:3335:135:735:1635:1835:1935:2035:2235:2335:2435:2535:2636:1

    5. Jeremiah16 verses

      1:21:33:622:1122:1825:125:326:127:135:136:136:236:937:145:146:2

    6. Zephaniah1 verse

      1:1

    7. Matthew2 verses

      1:101:11

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via Jehoiachin and JehoiakimNehushtaMother of King Jehoiachin of Judah.via JedidahAdaiahFather of Jedidah who was mother of King Josiah of Judahvia ZebidahPedaiahFather of Zebidah, mother of King Jehoiakimvia HamutalJeremiahFather-in-law of Jehoahaz and Zedekiahvia AmonManassehKing of Judah, son of Hezekiah.via AmonMeshullemethMother of Amon, king of Judah.via JehoiachinShealtielGrandfather of Zerubbabel, descendant of Davidvia JehoiachinZedekiahSon of Jeconiah, king of Judahvia DavidAbigailWife of Nabal, later married David
    ElsewhereGenealogy of JosiahEvery ancestor and every descendant the text names, both gospel lines where they differ.

    Where they appear

    Chapter by chapter

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    3 more chapters, from Jeremiah 25 to Zephaniah 1

    Sources

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