Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'josiah' occurs 55 times in the standard works.

44 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'josiah' in the standard works and contain 80% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 21 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Chr. 35:16-26 (11 in 11 verses)

2 Chr. 35:18-36:1 (11 in 11 verses)

Jer. 1:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 23:28-30 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Kgs. 23:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 22:11 (2 in 1 verse)


2 Kgs. 21:26-22:1 (2 in 2 verses)

 21:26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

 22:1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.




2 Kgs. 23:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 3:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 33:25-34:1 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 34:33-35:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 36:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 53 0 53
1 Kgs. 1 0 1
2 Kgs. 13 0 13
1 Chr. 2 0 2
2 Chr. 17 0 17
Jer. 18 0 18
Zeph. 1 0 1
Zech. 1 0 1
NT 0 0 0
BM 0 0 0
DC 1 0 1
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 55 0 55

2 Kgs. 21:24
And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.

2 Kgs. 21:26
And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kgs. 22:1
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.

2 Kgs. 22:3
And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying,

2 Kgs. 23:16
And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

2 Kgs. 23:19
And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.

2 Kgs. 23:23
But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem.

2 Kgs. 23:24
Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.

2 Kgs. 23:28
Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kgs. 23:29
In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

2 Kgs. 23:30
And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.

2 Kgs. 23:34
And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.