Josiah: meaning of the name

Josiah in Hebrew and Greek

People named Josiah in the Bible

• Josiah, son of Amon

  49 verses · first mentioned in 1 Kings 13:2 · Tribe of Judah, Genealogy of Jesus

• Josiah, son of Zephaniah

  4 verses · first mentioned in Zechariah 6:10

Josiah in Scripture

“Josiah” appears in 48 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• 1 Kings 13:2

  And he cried against the altar in the word of the Lord, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men’s bones shall be burnt upon thee.

• 2 Kings 21:24

  And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.

• 2 Kings 21:26

  And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

• 2 Kings 22:1

  Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.

• 2 Kings 22:3

  And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying,

• 2 Kings 23:16

  And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

• 2 Kings 23:19

  And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth–el.

• 2 Kings 23:23

  But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem.