# Josiah — Biblical Genealogy & Biography

> Canonical URL: https://localhost/people/josiah-0-48/
> Markdown URL: https://localhost/people/josiah-0-48.md
> Role: Generation 49 • Messianic Line • Child of Amon

## Summary

Josiah is a biblical figure in Generation 49 of the Messianic Line, child of Amon, parent of Jehoahaz (or Johanan), Jehoiakim (or Eliakim), Zedekiah (or Matteniah), Shallum. (1 Chronicles 3:14, Matthew 1:10)

## Scripture Chapters Mentioning Figure

- [1 Kings 13](https://localhost/bible/OT.1KI/13.md): "And he cried against the altar in the word of the Lord, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee."
- [2 Kings 21](https://localhost/bible/OT.2KI/21.md): "And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead."
- [2 Kings 22](https://localhost/bible/OT.2KI/22.md): "Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath."
- [2 Kings 23](https://localhost/bible/OT.2KI/23.md): "And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words."
- [1 Chronicles 3](https://localhost/bible/OT.1CH/3.md)
- [2 Chronicles 33](https://localhost/bible/OT.2CH/33.md): "But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead."
- [2 Chronicles 34](https://localhost/bible/OT.2CH/34.md): "Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years."
- [2 Chronicles 35](https://localhost/bible/OT.2CH/35.md): "Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the Lord in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month."
- [2 Chronicles 36](https://localhost/bible/OT.2CH/36.md): "Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem."
- [Jeremiah 1](https://localhost/bible/OT.JER/1.md): "To whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign."
- [Jeremiah 3](https://localhost/bible/OT.JER/3.md): "The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot."
- [Jeremiah 22](https://localhost/bible/OT.JER/22.md): "For thus saith the Lord touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more:"
- [Jeremiah 25](https://localhost/bible/OT.JER/25.md): "The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;"
- [Jeremiah 26](https://localhost/bible/OT.JER/26.md): "In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the Lord, saying,"
- [Jeremiah 27](https://localhost/bible/OT.JER/27.md): "In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,"
- [Jeremiah 35](https://localhost/bible/OT.JER/35.md): "The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,"
- [Jeremiah 36](https://localhost/bible/OT.JER/36.md): "And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,"
- [Jeremiah 37](https://localhost/bible/OT.JER/37.md): "And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah."
- [Jeremiah 45](https://localhost/bible/OT.JER/45.md): "The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,"
- [Jeremiah 46](https://localhost/bible/OT.JER/46.md): "Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh–neco king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah."
- [Zephaniah 1](https://localhost/bible/OT.ZEP/1.md): "The word of the Lord which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah."
- [Zechariah 6](https://localhost/bible/OT.ZEC/6.md): "Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah;"
- [The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus 49](https://localhost/bible/AP.SIR/49.md): "The memorial of Josiah is like the composition of incense Prepared by the work of the apothecary: It shall be sweet as honey in every mouth, And as music at a banquet of wine."
- [Matthew 1](https://localhost/bible/NT.MAT/1.md)

## Connected Knowledge Graph Entities

- [Amon (person)](https://localhost/people/amon-0-47.md) — child of
- [Jehoahaz (or Johanan) (person)](https://localhost/people/jehoahaz.or.johanan.-0-49.md) — parent of
- [Jehoiakim (or Eliakim) (person)](https://localhost/people/jehoiakim.or.eliakim.-1-49.md) — parent of
- [Zedekiah (or Matteniah) (person)](https://localhost/people/zedekiah.or.matteniah.-2-49.md) — parent of
- [Shallum (person)](https://localhost/people/shallum-3-49.md) — parent of
- [King David & the Davidic Covenant (concept)](https://localhost/wiki/davidic-dynasty.md) — features person