We have here, I. The happy continuance of the goodness of Josiah’s reign, and the progress of the reformation he began, reading the law , renewing the covenant , cleansing the temple , and rooting out idols and idolatry, with all the relics thereof, in all places, as far as his power reached ,…

Josiah had received a message from God that there was no preventing the ruin of Jerusalem, but that he should deliver only his own soul; yet he did not therefore sit down in despair, and resolve to do nothing for his country because he could not do all he would.

We have here an account of such a reformation as we have not met with in all the history of the kings of Judah, such thorough riddance made of all the abominable things and such foundations laid of a glorious good work; and here I cannot but wonder at two things:—1.

Upon the reading of these verses we must say, Lord, though thy righteousness be as the great mountains —evident, conspicuous, and past dispute, yet thy judgments are a great deep, unfathomable and past finding out, Ps. 36:6. What shall we say to this? I.

Jerusalem saw not a good day after Josiah was laid in his grave, but one trouble came after another, till within twenty-two years it was quite destroyed.