King of Israel and Judah ca. 620 BCE, he is remembered (in II Kgs 22:1-23:30) for his strict religious reforms, based on a book of the law discovered in the Jerusalem Temple and in response to a pronouncement from the prophetess Huldah. Scholars think this law book may have been a prototype of our book of Deuteronomy.

(640-609) King of Judah who reformed Judean religion and died in battle at Megiddo. See Chapter 5, Chapter 9, Chapter 11.

Josiah or Yoshiyahu (יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ "supported of the LORD", Standard Hebrew Yošiyyáhu, Tiberian Hebrew Yôšiyyāhû) was king of Judah, and son of Amon and Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. His grandfather was King Manasseh, who had turned from the Jewish religion, even adapting the Temple for worship that was considered idolatrous by faithful Jews. Josiah is credited by some historians with having established Jewish scripture in written form as a part of the Deuteronomic reform that occurred during his rule.