ASIN: B00VF15SNC
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 84
After decades of misrule by tyrants rejecting Moses' Law, the House of David gets its last hope in Josiah, an eight-year-old boy. Despite his youth and his parental examples, he becomes a faithful reformer, spurning idolatry, restoring Solomon's Temple, and celebrating an unparalleled Passover.When he dies young in a quixotic campaign to save his kingdom's ancient enemy, Assyria, his throne passes to his sons, not even pale shadows of their father. Three of his successors leave the stage quickly, their sole legacy fickle alliances with the world's great powers and a building program that Judah could ill afford.At last, the Throne of David descends to the weak, indecisive Zedekiah, who swings from worldly advisors who counsel war to a sorrowful prophet, Jeremiah, who counsels surrender as God's will. At the gates of Zedekiah's capital, the holy city of Jerusalem, Babylon is waiting to ...
