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SCRIPTURE BIOGRAPHY FOR THE YOUNGThe History of Josiah, The Young King of Judah
Thomas H. Gallaudet
THIS IS A BONUS VOLUME TO THE SCRIPTURE BIOGRAPHY FOR THE YOUNG SERIES
THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE
"The author adds one more volume, for children and youth, to the list of Scripture biographies. He rejoices that others too have been engaged in similar labors. As a father, he longs for the time when the histories which God himself directed to be written for our instruction and that of our offspring, may be prepared for their perusal, interwoven with such elucidations and instructions, and made the basis of such exhortations and admonitions, as will attract their attention, with an increasing interest, to the divinely inspired record, and lead them to regard the facts of the Bible as the most important facts to be known and pondered in the whole circle of their reading.
He will only add, that his own attention has been arrested by the character of Josiah, as one that cornbines traits of peculiar excellence, which deserve to be strikingly illustrated and set before our children and youth, as models of imitation and incentives to duty.
How far he has succeeded in attempting to do this, the public will decide. If the book does good, especially to the souls of children and youth, his highest wishes will be answered."
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAP. I. The history of Josiah an interesting one.—What is a monarch.—A description of a republican government, and of a monarchical one.—What a king was among, the Jews
CHAP. II. How and when Josiah came to the throne.—His father Amon.—The ceremonies attending his becoming king.—Happiness does not depend on living in splendor and luxury.—How riches and power should be used.—What Josiah was doing while yet a boy.—His early religious instruction.
CHAP. III. What Josiah did when he was sixteen years old.—His strong faith in God, in resolving to reform his people.—The wickedness of Judah at that time.—Manasseh's idolatry.—Account of Moloch and other false gods.—Manasseh's punishment and repentance.—Amon's great wickedness. —Extent of Josiah’s kingdom.—His anxiety to do his duty.
CHAP. IV. Josiah's beginning to remove idolatry.—Account of the high places.—Josiah had them destroyed, and also the altars and images of the false gods.—Account of Baal.—Why Josiah strewed the dust of the images upon the graves of the idolaters, and burned the bones of the priests upon the altars.—What he did in the cities of Israel to destroy idolatry.—Example of Josiah in overcoming difficulties.—His strong detestation of wickedness.—His great resolution in doing his duty.—His undertaking to repair the temple.—Some account of the injuries it had received, and of its being profaned.
CHAP. V. How Josiah raised money to repair the temple, and began the work.—What we have to do to build up a spiritual temple to the Lord.—What children and youth can do.—No account kept with the overseers.—Value of a good character.—Principles of honesty.—The book of the law of the Lord found.—Account of the ark of the covenant.—The book of the law carried to Josiah and read before him.—The judgments it denounced against sin.—Josiah's distress.—The great evil and danger of sin, and the need of trusting in Christ.
CHAP. VI. The book of the law found, probably the original copy.—Why hid in the temple. —Value of the Bible.—Josiah sends to inquire the will of God.—The messengers go to Huldah the prophetess and bring back her answer.—Terrible threatenings against sin.—Josiah resolved to endeavor to bring back his people to obedience to God.—He orders a great meeting at Jerusalem, at which he and his people enter into covenant with God.—How such covenants ought to be made.—He resolves to destroy all the remains of idolatry in his kingdom, and enters upon the work.—Why he went to Bethel.—Jeroboam's setting up a golden calf at Bethel, and what happened at the time.—A remarkable prophecy about Josiah.
CHAP. VII. The prophecy fulfilled.—God has all things under his control.—Other things that Josiah did to destroy idolatry—burned the groves—defiled Tophet—burned the chariots of the sun, and beat down the altars and the images ; great and difficult things to be done by so young a monarch.
—What is moral courage, and importance of it.—Josiah's keeping the passover, and an account of it.—Duty of obeying strictly what God commands with regard to the ordinances and institutions of his worship. —Why Josiah was spared the sight of the great troubles that were to come on Jerusalem and Judah.CHAP. VIII. Josiah goes out with his army to meet the king of Egypt.—He is mortally wounded in the battle and carried to Jerusalem.—His death.—His character.—Conclusion.
