“Never before had there been a king like Josiah, who turned to the LORD with all his heart and soul and strength, obeying all the laws of Moses. And there has never been a king like him since.
While Josiah was king, Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, went to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah and his army marched out to fight him, but King Neco killed him when they met at Megiddo. Josiah’s officers took his body back in a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. Then the people of the land anointed Josiah’s son Jehoahaz and made him the next king.”
Life’s events are not random, although at times they seem for all the world to be. Josiah served the LORD with all his heart. There was no other king like him. And yet his death seems almost a tragic accident.
Men and women are free moral agents, and yet God’s kingdom rules over all.
