Josiah

King of Judah from 640 to 609 BC. Greatly praised by the writer of 2 Kings for his renovation of the Temple and his reforms to the religion of Judah, which may have included the finding and establishing in the land of the laws of Deuteronomy (see 2 Kings 22). He was killed by Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt at Megiddo in 609 BC, a chain of events that eventually led to the destruction of Jerusalem and the exile of Judah by the Babylonians.