2 Kings 16 - 2 Kings 25
There is so much in these books - so many lives in each chapter - that it's hard for me to absorb it and really pay attention. But I did get the sense of king after king who led the people farther away from God.
The stand-out story in today's reading is of King Josiah, starting in 2 Kings 22. He sends a secretary on an errand to the Temple, to take care of business. At the Temple, the High Priest reports to the secretary that he has just found a book: God's Revelation! This is so fascinating to me - and shows how far from God the priests and people had become - the book was "found" and everything in it seemed to be new to the readers. How could they have let such a precious, vital object become forgotten?
King Josiah took God's Revelation to heart - and made drastic changes even beyond his own kingdom, eliminating and pulverizing idols and other buildings and objects used to worship anyone but the God of Abraham. Josiah literally mourned the evil ways of his people and ancestors - he tore his clothes.
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