2 Chronicles 35

Now this should the more prevail with us, because many of God's people have failed after some eminent service performed for God. Josiah after he had prepared the temple, fell into that rash attempt against Pharaoh Necho which cost him his life (2 Chronicles 35:20): After all thi…

And (Jeremiah 9:20): Teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation; (you see it was an art taught among them,) for death is come up into our windows, etc. In (2 Chronicles 35:25) we have a record to the same effect, concerning the lamentation for Josiah: A…

If he shall commit a sin upon that confidence of his own righteousness. Josiah's breach with God was after the preparing of the Temple (2 Chronicles 35:20); even God's children take the more carnal liberty because of their duties. 2nd Use is Trial.

First, (Zechariah 12:10) They shall mourn for him, as the mother mourns for her only son, and for her firstborn: the mourning of a tenderhearted mother for her son, her firstborn, and for her only son, he adds all degrees of grief: if she had possessed many, she might more easil…

Now therefore for that, that was a mourning which was caused by the greatest loss that could befall any Commonwealth, it was for the death of good Josiah, a better prince than whom the earth never bore, whose loss therefore was the more grievous, because in his loss the wise hea…