King Josiah, crowned at age eight, spent his reign tearing down idols and renewing Judah’s lost covenant with God - one of the most decisive reform stories in all of Scripture.

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Lyrics

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years

And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord and walked in the ways of David his father And turned not aside to the right hand or to the left

For in the eighth year of his reign while he was yet young He began to seek after the God of David his father

And in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem From the high places and the groves and the carved images and the molten images

And they brake down the altars of the Baalim in his presence And the sun images that were on high above them he hewed down

And the groves and the carved images and the molten images He brake in pieces and made dust of them and strowed it upon the graves of them That had sacrificed unto them

And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars And cleansed Judah and Jerusalem In the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon even unto Naphtali

And he returned to Jerusalem And in the eighteenth year of his reign when he had purged the land and the house

He sent Shaphan and the overseer of the house To repair the house of the Lord his God And they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the Lord

The reforms made, the land cleansed The covenant restored, the faith renewed

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2 Chronicles 34 sung by Psalm Selah. The whole Bible, one chapter at a time.

Published 2026-05-22 · Last updated 2026-06-06
Written by Reid Wender, Editorial Director at Psalmody Press