The divinely appointed delay, from 622 BC to 586 BC, between King Josiah learning of Jerusalem’s coming judgment and the actual destruction of the temple was nearly 40 years. God’s advance warning system was activated in 605 BC when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took some of the temple treasures and carted them off to the…
The more I study Scripture, the more patterns seem to leap off the page. In the blog post The Book of the Law, we looked at God’s timing in the discovery of the Book of the Law during Josiah’s reign. God let it be found when a godly king would act on what he was…
The Hebrew word selah occurs in the Bible only in the Psalms, and we don’t know exactly what it means. By inference, we’ve come to see it as a pause, a musical interlude, perhaps a time to reflect. God gave Josiah a selah. The last blog post explored the time in Josiah’s reign when the high priest…
Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the book of the law in the house of Yahweh.” And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan and he read it. – 2 Kings 22:8 Have you ever wondered what the Book of the Law was? All 5 books of the Torah,…
If you think, “Uggh, the weeping prophet. How depressing,” think again. Jeremiah is fascinating. He’s so much more than a man who needs a box of Kleenex. This blog post is part of a series on the inspiration for my inspirational fantasy series, The Prophet Chronicles. We’ve talked about Josiah – how he was crowned at…