🏔️ 2 Kings 23

2 Kings 23 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.” That is not a motto invented for a poster. It is the first sentence a family hears when this page is opened at night.

Keep going a little further. The chapter also says, “All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Yahweh to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.” 2 Kings 23 opens with these words: “The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.” The line to keep is 2 Kings 23:10: “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.” Carry the word “defiled” from that verse into the rest of the day.

The line worth learning out loud is 2 Kings 23:10: “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.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.

What happens first in 2 Kings 23? Then try this: Read “He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his…” once more. What does it show you about God? You do not have to finish every verse. You can close the book after the memory verse and still have read the Bible together.