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After decades of misrule by tyrants rejecting Moses' Law, the House of David gets its last hope in Josiah, an eight-year-old boy. Despite his youth and his parental examples, he becomes a faithful reformer, spurning idolatry, restoring Solomon's Temple, and celebrating an unparalleled Passover.
When he dies young in a quixotic campaign to save his kingdom's ancient enemy, Assyria, his throne passes to his sons, not even pale shadows of their father. Three of his successors leave the stage quickly, their sole legacy fickle alliances with the world's great powers and a building program that Judah could ill afford.
At last, the Throne of David descends to the weak, indecisive Zedekiah, who swings from worldly advisors who counsel war to a sorrowful prophet, Jeremiah, who counsels surrender as God's will. At the gates of Zedekiah's capital, the holy city of Jerusalem, Babylon is waiting to destroy the king's palace and God's temple. Yet, amid despair, a seed of hope is planted...
The last days of the Kingdom of Judah, a time of trial, treachery, and triumph, hold lessons for us today as individuals, as the Church, and as a people in a world of fierce, ambitious powers.
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