And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the  Lord .” 2 Kings 22:8 At 18 years old king Josiah being zealous for the Lord recognizes that the temple of the Lord had become run down and had not been taken care of many years. There had been 34 kings in Israel and Judah since the Day that King Solomon erected the Temple to the Lord but all but four put the things of God on the back burner. These kings had taken on the ways of the world, full of greed and self-promotion, egotistic behaviors, seeking after perversions and idol worshipers, rather than worshipping God.   And even though they lived in the midst of God’s kingdom on earth, they all miserably failed to walk in the ways of God.   the scripture tells us they did “evil in the sight of the Lord ” King “Josiah” because of his love for the Lord had the most difficult time of fixing what had been the failure of many kings and over ...