Manasseh and Josiah
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*Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen. 2 Chronicles 33:9.
*The trying experiences through which Judah had safely passed during Hezekiah's reign had developed, in the hearts of many, a sturdiness of character that now served as a bulwark against the prevailing iniquity.
*With the accession of Josiah to the throne, those who had maintained the purity of their faith began to hope that the downward course of the kingdom was checked; for the new king, though only eight years old, feared God, and from the very beginning he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left. 2 Kings 22:2
* The faith that strengthened Habakkuk and all the holy and the just in those days of deep trial was the same faith that sustains God's people today. The Lord is in His holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before Him. Habakkuk 2:20