Josiah Reigns over Judah

22 ^(A)Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of ^(B)Bozkath. ² And he did what was right in the sight of Yahweh and walked in all the way of his father David and did not ^(C)turn aside to the right or to the left.

² to whom the word of ^[a]Yahweh came in the days of ^(A)Josiah the son of ^(B)Amon, king of Judah, in the ^(C)thirteenth year of his reign.

Faithless Israel Called to Repentance

⁶ Then Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She ^(A)went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she was a harlot there.