Lecrae – After The Music Stops

Who was behind the scenes discipling King Josiah?  He was king at eight years old, already had two children at fourteen and then his life was turned around at age sixteen. We know the law was lost for generations, so someone had to be telling Josiah something about the one true God. Whoever that was, that is what we call discipleship today.

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and the metal images.And they chopped down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and he cut down the incense altars that stood above them. And he broke in pieces the Asherim and the carved and the metal images, and he made dust of them and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. And in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins^[a]all around, he broke down the altars and beat the Asherim and the images into powder and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem. – 2 Chronicles 34:3-7  ESV

Josiah really began to want to know the word of God. He knew that God’s word would change everything.

 “Go, inquire of the Lord for me and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the Lord that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord, to do according to all that is written in this book.” – 2 Chronicles 34:21  ESV