2 Chronicles 34

2 Chronicles 34:1-35

P. Josiah chs. 34-35 Like Amon’s death (2 Chronicles 33:24), Josiah’s was unnecessarily premature. However, unlike Amon, Josiah was one of Judah’s reformers.

“Josiah instituted the most thorough of all the OT reforms .. .” [Note: Idem, “1, 2 Chronicles,” p. 549. “Despite this, however, Josiah is not so significant a monarch overall for the Chronicler as he is for the earlier historian [i.e., the writer of Kings]. Much that he records is now to be understood as recapitulation of Hezekiah’s work, who stands out as the real innovator in Chronicles.” [Note: Williamson, 1 and 2 . . ., p. 396.