The Book of Kings #26

The last days of Jerusalem and Judah were hard times. When a nation, a people, begin to lose their identity—their sense of who they are and where they are going—when a nation becomes morally bankrupt, indolent, self-indulgent—sooner or later, the nations around then sense the weakness and begin to gather.Israel had a good leader in King Josiah, and leadership makes an enormous difference among the people, but things didn’t change much at the grass roots. They had just gone too far down the slippery slope to oblivion. And after the death of Josiah, when Israel could no longer effectively