# Kings & Prophets: From Solomon to Jeremiah - Week 15 Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/awake-us-now-3481/kings-prophets-from-solomon-to-jeremiah-week-15 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/awake-us-now-3481/kings-prophets-from-solomon-to-jeremiah-week-15.md Podcast: [Awake Us Now](https://stenobird.com/podcast/awake-us-now-3481) Published: 2026-06-23T07:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://awakeusnow.libsyn.com/kings-prophets-from-solomon-to-jeremiah-week-15 Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/awakeusnow/Kings__Prophets__From_Solomon_to_Jeremiah_-_Week_15.mp3?dest-id=246214 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/awake-us-now-3481/episodes/kings-prophets-from-solomon-to-jeremiah-week-15 Duration seconds: 1502 ## Resource This is the final week in our study of 400 years of Kings and Prophets from Solomon to Jeremiah. King Josiah • Young King seeks God • Spiritual cleansing of Jerusalem • Book of the Law discovered • Reform beyond Judah • Passover observance - King Josiah gives an order to all people to observe God's Passover. This had not been celebrated according to what was written, not even in the days of the judges, nor in the days of any of the kings of Israel and Judah. Josiah made sure the celebration was carried out according to what was written in the Book of the Covenant. He, like David, was a man after God's own heart. He reads the scriptures and applies them and a time of revival begins. We read in 2 Kings 23:25 "Neither before nor after Josiah was there a king like him who turned to the LORD as he did - with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, in accordance with all the Law of Moses." • Death at Megiddo - A prophetic word comes from Huldah telling Josiah of the judgment that is coming from God against the people, but that because Josiah's heart was repentant he would not see the judgment that would come. During this time there was great international upheaval between Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon. 2 Kings 23:29 "While Josiah was king, Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went up to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out to meet him in battle, but Necho faced him and killed him at Megiddo." Jeremiah and the nation were devastated by the loss of king Josiah. Then Josiah's 3 sons reign. None were the king that their father was. They returned to the old ways for faithlessness to God. Josiah's 3 Sons • Jehoahaz - 2 Kings 23:31-33; 2 Chronicles 36:1-3 - reigned 3 month doing evil in the eyes of the Lord. He was imprisoned by Phara… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/awake-us-now-3481/episodes/kings-prophets-from-solomon-to-jeremiah-week-15/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/awake-us-now-3481/kings-prophets-from-solomon-to-jeremiah-week-15.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.