Hitchhiker's Guide to Religion
Biblical

More Kings

Biblical Reform, Torah recovery, righteousness
Portrait of More Kings
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Combat
ATK 40
DEF 35
SPR 88
SPD 40
INT 72
Rank King of Judah
Domain Reform, Torah recovery, righteousness
Alignment Holy
Weakness Picked a fight with Pharaoh Necho unnecessarily
Key Act Became king at age 8; at 18, workers found the lost Book of the Law in the Temple (2 Kings 22:8); tore his robes in repentance; launched the greatest religious reform in Israel's history; destroyed all idol worship; celebrated the greatest Passover since the Judges. "Neither before nor after Josiah was there a king like him" (2 Kings 23:25)
Source 2 Kings 22-23; 2 Chronicles 34-35

The most tragic arc in the Bible. Anointed by God, empowered by the Spirit, then abandoned — ending with necromancy and suicide.



The angel of the LORD killed 185,000 Assyrians in a single night (2 Kings 19:35) — the largest single-event kill in the Bible.


The lost scroll was likely Deuteronomy. Its discovery in 622 BC was one of the most consequential moments in biblical history. Josiah’s reforms are why we have the Bible as we know it.


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