Josiah

Family: Judah · Role: king · First appears: Jeremiah 1

In Jeremiah 1, Josiah is identified as the son of Amon, and as the father of Jehoiakim and Zedekiah. Jeremiah 22 names Shallum as his son, who reigned in his place, while Zechariah 6 refers to Josiah as the son of Zephaniah.

In the fourth year of Jehoiakim, at Carchemish by the Euphrates, Nebuchadnezzar defeated the army of Pharaohnecho of Egypt.

Relationship record

Life events

• Nebuchadrezzar defeated Pharaohnecho’s army by the river Euphrates.(Jeremiah 46 · 📍 Carchemish)
  • With: Nebuchadnezzar Pharaohnecho Jehoiakim
  • “Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho 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.”

Jeremiah 1

• parent: Amon “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.”
• child: Jehoiakim “It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.”
• child: Zedekiah “It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.”

Jeremiah 22

• child: Shallum “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;”

Zechariah 6

• parent: Zephaniah “go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah;”

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Extracted from the original text of The Prophets. Made with Rho MD.