The memory of Josiah is like the composition of a perfume, made by the art of the apothecary;

It is sweet as honey in every mouth, and as music at a banquet of wine.

He behaved himself uprightly in the conversion of the people, and took away the abominations of iniquity.

He directed his heart unto the Lord, and in the time of the ungodly he established godliness.

All, except David and Hezekiah and Josiah, have committed trespass.

For they forsook the law of the Most High; the kings of Judah turned away.

They gave their power unto others, and their honour to a strange nation.

They burnt the chosen city of the sanctuary with fire, and made her streets waste, by the hand of Jeremiah.

For they entreated him evil, who nevertheless was consecrated a prophet from his mother's womb, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy; and of course to build, and to plant.

Ezekiel saw the vision of glory, which He showed him upon the chariot of the cherubim.

For He remembered the enemies in the storm, and assured them that were true to the ways of righteousness of His mercy.

Let the bones of the twelve prophets flourish out of their places; for they comforted Jacob, and redeemed them with assured hope.

How shall we magnify Zerubbabel? He was as a signet on the right hand.

So also was Joshua the son of Josedek: who in their days built the house, and set up a holy temple to the Lord, prepared for everlasting glory.

And Nehemiah whose memorial is great; who raised up for us the walls that were fallen, and set up the gates and the bars, and rebuilt our ruined habitations.

No man was created upon the earth like Enoch, for he was taken from the earth.

Neither was there a man born like Joseph, a leader of his brethren, and a stay of the people.

His bones were visited, and after his death they prophesied.

Shem and Seth were in great honor among men, and above every living thing in the creation was Adam.