1
The remembrance of Josiah is like the composition of the perfume that is made by the art of the apothecary: it is sweet as honey in all mouths, and as music at a banquet of wine.
2
He behaved himself uprightly in the conversion of the people, and took away the abominations of iniquity.
3
He directed his heart unto the Lord, and in the time of the ungodly he established the worship of God.
4
All, except David and Hezekiah and Josiah were defective, for they forsook the law of the Most High; even the kings of Judah failed.
5
Therefore He gave their power unto others, and their glory to a strange nation.
6
They burned the chosen city of the sanctuary, and made the streets desolate, according to the prophecy of Jeremiah.
7
For they treated him evilly, who nevertheless was a prophet, sanctified in his mother's that he might root out and afflict and destroy, and that he might build up also and plant.
8
It was Ezekiel who saw the glorious vision, which was shown him upon the chariot of the cherubims.