Passage

2 Kings 22

• Glossary Term

  Altar

  Josiah destroys false altars; must be distinguished from Catholic or folk/ancestor altars by context.

  2KI.22.1

• Glossary Term

  Book Of The Law

  The scroll rediscovered in the temple (2 Kings 22:8), prompting Josiah's reforms; standard term.

  2KI.22.8-13

• Doctrine

  Delayed Judgment

  God's promise that judgment on Judah will not fall in Josiah's own lifetime because of his humble response echoes Ahab's earlier partial-repentance pattern in 1 Kings 21 -- worth noting the parallel.

  2KI.22.18-20

• Doctrine

  Josiah's Reforms

  Josiah's sweeping reform, triggered by rediscovering the Book of the Law, is presented as the most thorough religious reform in the book ('there was no king like him' -- 2 Kings 23:25) and yet does not ultimately avert Judah's judgment (23:26-27), already sealed by Manasseh's sins.

  2KI.22.1

• Glossary Term

  Passover

  Josiah's restored Passover observance (2 Kings 23:21-23); in Spanish, 'Pascua' also refers to Easter in Christian usage -- context must make clear this is the Old Testament Passover feast, not the Christian Easter celebration.

  2KI.22.1

• Glossary Term

  Reform

  Josiah's sweeping religious reform (2 Kings 22-23); standard term, though in a Spanish Protestant/Catholic context 'reforma' also evokes the 16th-century Reformation -- context should make the referent clear.

  2KI.22.1

• Glossary Term

  Repentance

  Distinguish from the Catholic sacramental sense of penitencia.

  2KI.22.1

• Glossary Term

  Word Of The Lord

  Standard phrase.

  2KI.22.8-13

• Doctrine

  Written Word of God's Authority

  The rediscovered Book of the Law's immediate, authoritative effect on Josiah (tearing his clothes, urgent inquiry of the LORD) demonstrates Scripture's binding authority even after generations of neglect.

  2KI.22.8-13