Definitions
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- King of Judah (640?–609?) who attempted to destroy all forms of idolatry.
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- proper noun biblical A
king ofJudah . - proper noun A male
given name .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I've been trying to get Captain Josiah to hoist the flag but he says it isn't the proper caper till sunrise.
Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud 1921
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Josiah is expressly said (2Ki 23: 5, Margin) to have "put down the Chemarim."
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Jer 3: 6-6: 30, is a new discourse, delivered in Josiah's reign.
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Judea, situated between the contending powers, was thus exposed to the inroads of the one or other of the hostile armies; and unfortunately, except in Josiah's reign, took side with Egypt, contrary to God's warnings.
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More than usual notoriety had been given to the curses of the law, by the finding and reading of it in Josiah's time (2Ki 22: 11, &c.).
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During the eighteen years of his ministry in Josiah's reign he was unmolested; also during the three months of Jehoahaz or
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Josiah is said not to have destroyed, but only defiled, "the high places on the hill of corruption."
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Ahikam the son of Shaphan, one that was a minister of state in Josiah's time; we read of him, 2 Kings xxii.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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He was the son of Hilkiah, not that Hilkiah, it is supposed, who was high priest in Josiah's time (for then he would have been called so, and not, as here, one of the priests that were in Anathoth), but another of the same name.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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She had one child, a son, by name Josiah, who was three years old.
The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993
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