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Josiah Burns the Idols Quiz

Test how well you remember Josiah's reform from 2 Kings 23. Each question is answered directly from the passage, and the King James verse is shown with every answer. Complete the quiz to unlock a free 7-day prayer guide!

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  1. What did Josiah read to the people?
    • All the words of the book of the covenant
    • A list of the temple repairs
    • The names of the kings
    • A letter from Assyria
  2. Where did Josiah stand to make the covenant?
    • At the city gate
    • In the court
    • By a pillar
    • On the altar
  3. Where were the vessels made for Baal burned?
    • In the fields of Kidron
    • On the temple mount
    • At Bethel
    • In the valley of Hinnom
  4. What did Josiah do with the powder of the burned grove?
    • Threw it into the sea
    • Buried it outside the wall
    • Scattered it at Bethel
    • Cast it on the graves of the people
  5. Why did Josiah defile Topheth?
    • To make room for the temple
    • To bury the priests
    • So no one could pass a child through the fire to Molech
    • To build a road
  6. What did Josiah burn that the kings of Judah had given to the sun?
    • The chariots of the sun
    • The gates of the temple
    • The royal chariots
    • The groves of Kidron
  7. Who had built the high places before Jerusalem?
    • Ahab
    • Jeroboam
    • Manasseh
    • Solomon
  8. Whose altar at Bethel did Josiah break down?
    • Hoshea
    • Jeroboam the son of Nebat
    • Ahab
    • Omri
  9. What feast did Josiah command the people to keep?
    • The feast of weeks
    • The passover
    • The feast of tabernacles
    • The day of atonement
  10. Why did the LORD's anger against Judah still stand?
    • Because the book was lost again
    • Because of the provocations of Manasseh
    • Because Josiah kept the passover late
    • Because the priests refused

Josiah Burns the Idols Quiz Answers & Bible References

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  1. What did Josiah read to the people?

    All the words of the book of the covenant

    And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.

    2 kings 23:2 (KJV)

  2. Where did Josiah stand to make the covenant?

    By a pillar

    And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

    2 kings 23:3 (KJV)

  3. Where were the vessels made for Baal burned?

    In the fields of Kidron

    And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.

    2 kings 23:4 (KJV)

  4. What did Josiah do with the powder of the burned grove?

    Cast it on the graves of the people

    And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.

    2 kings 23:6 (KJV)

  5. Why did Josiah defile Topheth?

    So no one could pass a child through the fire to Molech

    And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

    2 kings 23:10 (KJV)

  6. What did Josiah burn that the kings of Judah had given to the sun?

    The chariots of the sun

    And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

    2 kings 23:11 (KJV)

  7. Who had built the high places before Jerusalem?

    Solomon

    And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

    2 kings 23:13 (KJV)

  8. Whose altar at Bethel did Josiah break down?

    Jeroboam the son of Nebat

    Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.

    2 kings 23:15 (KJV)

  9. What feast did Josiah command the people to keep?

    The passover

    And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.

    2 kings 23:21 (KJV)

  10. Why did the LORD's anger against Judah still stand?

    Because of the provocations of Manasseh

    Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.

    2 kings 23:26 (KJV)