1. The wooden idol (23:6)2. The ritual shrines & booths (23:7; Deut. 12:8-14)3. Cleaning up the clergy (23:8)4. Disqualifying them for future leadership (23:9)5. Cleaning up outside the temple (23:1)

1. All men - the scope of this renewal (23:1)2. The temple/church was the source of this (23:2)3. It was to be done by the book (23:3)4. By covenanting (23:4)5. By repentance (23:5)

1. The ironies of Josiah2. Shaphan's mission involving the temple (3)3. Hilkiah the high priest's discovery of the law (8)4. The prophetess Huldah's word to Josiah (15)

1. Manasseh as an idea2. Manasseh as an example3. Manasseh as an aggravated example4. Manasseh as a reason for Jesus

A. The Value of the WordB. The Vitality of the WordC. The Victory of the Word

A. The Portrait of the Sovereign (Psa. 97:1-6)B. The Prostration before the Sovereign (Psa. 97:7-9)C. The Praise for the Sovereign (Psa. 97:10-12)

1. Questions about prayer (20:1-2)2. Questions about prophecy (20:1-4)3. Questions about lifespan (20:6a)4. Questions about why God blesses us (20:6b)5. Questions about truthfulness (20:8)

1. Assyria's ignorant pride (19:11-133)2. Assyria's sinful pride (19:1ff)3. Assyria's blasphemous pride (19:22,25,27-28,35-37)

1. Samaria is seditionist Israel & judges & cursed Israel2. Samaria resettled with foreign transplants3. God cursed these people for their impiety/religious corruption4. Sennacherib improvised as high priest to reset Samaria's religion5. Yet paganism had no power to make Samaria palatable to God