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Dear Family and Friends of St John's,
King Josiah planned to restore the Temple of the LORD. In the process he found the ‘Book of the Covenant'. This book was almost certainly the book recording God's covenant with Israel through Moses, probably Deuteronomy. It had been lost through generations of neglect of God's word! Josiah's response was to read the book, to fear the consequences of not obeying the words of the book, to read the book publicly to God's people, and to make a public covenant to perform the words written in the book.
The king went up to the house of the LORD, with all the people of Judah... he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD. The king stood in his place and made a covenant before the LORD, to follow the LORD, keeping his commandments... (2 Chronicles 35:14f)
The second story is about Josiah's son Jehoiakim when he received a scroll from the prophet Jeremiah. His response to the written word of God was very different...
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