King Josiah

By Katheryn Maddox Haddad

87 pages written in easy-to-read large 16-point font for the early reader.  Stories can be understood by four-year-olds and up. 
*At the end of each chapter is "Think & Do" to help the child apply the story to their own life.
*Popular among grandparents & parents, and excellent for homeschoolers. &nbs

• Language: English
• Publisher: MARK WARNICK
• Release date: Nov 18, 2017
• ISBN: 9781948462082

Katheryn Maddox Haddad

Katheryn Maddox Haddad spends an average of 300 hours researching before she writes a book-ancient historians such as Josephus, archaeological digs so she can know the layout of cities, their language culture and politics. She grew up in the northern United States and now lives in Arizona where she doesn't have to shovel sunshine. She basks in 100-degree weather, palm trees, cacti, and a computer with most of the letters worn off. With a bachelor's degree in English, Bible and social science from Harding University and part of a master's degree in Bible, including Greek, from the Harding Graduate School of Theology, she also has a master's degree in management and human relations from Abilene University. She is author of forty-eight books, both non-fiction and fiction. Her newspaper column appeared for several years in newspapers in Texas and North Carolina ~ Little Known Facts About the Bible ~ and she has written for numerous Christian publications. For several years, she has been sending out every morning a daily scripture and short inspirational thought to some 30,000 people around the world. She spends half her day writing, and the other half teaching English over the internet worldwide using the Bible as textbook. She has taught over 6000 Muslims through World English Institute. Students she has converted to Christianity are in hiding in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Uzbekistan, Somalia, Jordan, Pakistan, and Palestine. "They are my heroes," she declares.

Book preview

1 ~ Great-Grandfather

It has now been a very long time since 7-year-old Joash became king. He was king when the kingdom of Isra-el was fairly new. Now, the kingdom is old and not doing very well.

A lot of dark and bad things were now being done in the kingdom. People enjoyed being bad. So did their kings.

Little Josiah didn’t have a very good chance of ending up good. His father and grandfather were bad kings. Josiah should have ended up bad too. But he was good. What happened?

Perhaps part of it was because of Josiah’s Great-Grandfather, King Hez-e-kiah.

Hez-e-kiah’s own father and grandfather had been bad kings. Hez-e-kiah became a good king. Let’s listen in.

I want all the statues broken, torn down, and taken to the garbage dump, the new King Hez-e-kiah shouted when he was young.

All of them, oh King? Some of those statues are real pretty.

Some flowers are pretty but they are poison. Tear the statues down. All of them.

But, oh king, they are gods.

There is only one God. Statues can’t talk or see or hear. Tear them down. All of them.

But, oh king, they cost a lot of money.

The money should have been spent helping the poor. Tear them down. All of them.

But, oh king, it will leave the ground bare.

Put a tree in their place. Tear them down. All of them.

There was no talking King Hez-e-kiah out of tearing down the statues people bowed down to.

There were some people who got really, really mad when King Hez-e-kiah ordered the statues be torn down.

The priests were mad because people used to give money to the pretend gods. Since the pretend gods were made out of stone and not alive to spend the money, the priests spent the money on themselves.

King Hez-e-kiah made the pretend priests leave his kingdom.

Why would anyone want to worship pretend gods when they can worship the one true God? he would say to people in the palace.

One day, even though King Hez-e-kiah was good, he got very sick. He was so sick, he was going