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This week's question:

While David's son Solomon, was king over all Israel, the Lord asked him, "In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream at night; and God said, 'Ask what you wish me to give you.'" (1 Kings 3:5). And Solomon answers the Lord, "So give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people to discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?' It was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing. God said to him, 'Because you have asked this thing and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself discernment to understand justice, behold, I have done according to your words Behold, I have given you a wise and discerning heart, so that there has been no one like you before you, nor shall one like you arise after you.'" (1 Kings 3:9-12).

Although Solomon enjoys a long and prosperous reign, in his elder years his attitude changes with time, "And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away. For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and after Milcom the detestable idol of the Ammonites. Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not follow the Lord fully, as David his father had done." (1 Kings 11:3-6).

And so God tells Solomon, "Now the Lord was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice, and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he did not observe what the Lord had commanded. So the Lord said to Solomon, 'Because you have done this, and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant. Nevertheless I will not do it in your days for the sake of your father David, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son. However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen.'" (1 Kings 11:9-13).

So the kingdom was torn away from his son Rehoboam as Judah and Benjamin stayed with him, while the other ten tribes stayed with Jeroboam (1 Kings 12:6-24). Some kings stood fast with the Lord while others forgot His way and followed after idols of foreign nations.

That brings us to our question, "What king of Judah was killed at the battle of Megiddo?." One such king of Jerusalem was Manasseh. "Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hephzibah. He did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord dispossessed before the sons of Israel. For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, 'In Jerusalem I will put My name.' For he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. He made his son pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and used divination, and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord provoking Him to anger." ( 2 Kings 21: 1-6).

When he died, he left this legacy, "Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another: besides his sin with which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the Lord." (2 Kings 21:16).

So, his son, Amon becomes king and he also walked in the evil way of his father only to be killed by his servants after a reign of two years, but he has a son who becomes king (2 Kings 21:19-26).

So then, for the answer to our question we turn and read, "But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was observed to the Lord in Jerusalem. Moreover, Josiah removed the mediums and the spiritists and the teraphim and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord. Before him there was no king like him who turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him. However, the Lord did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath with which His anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him. The Lord said, 'I will remove Judah also from My sight, as I have removed Israel And I will cast off Jerusalem, this city which I have chosen, and the temple of which I said, 'My name shall be there.' Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates And King Josiah went to meet him, and when Pharaoh Neco saw him he killed him at Megiddo. His servants drove his body in a chariot from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father." (2 Kings 23:23-30)

So there we have the answer to our question as it is none other than Josiah who turned the people back to the Lord!

May we be as honest as Josiah who turned to the Lord when he heard the words of the book of the Lord read, he turned to serve the Lord with all his people for life eternal (2 Kings 22:all)!