 Josiah king of Judah he came to the throne when he was just eight years old but his father and his grandfather had been very wicked men and rulers over the southern kingdom of Judah God's people had been without him the majority of them at least for a very long period of time they've been without his word because during the reign of Josiah while repairs were being made to the house of the Lord the temple of the Lord there in Jerusalem the book of the law was discovered and