Josiah Succeeds Amon

22 ^(A)Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of ^(B)Bozkath. ² He did what was right in the sight of the Lord and walked ^[a]entirely in the way of his father David, and did not ^(C)turn aside to the right or to the left.

² to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of ^(A)Josiah the son of ^(B)Amon, king of Judah, in the ^(C)thirteenth year of his reign.

Faithless Israel

⁶ Then the Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah, “Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She ^(A)went up on every high hill and under every leafy tree, and she prostituted herself there.