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1The name of Josiah is like blended incense[#Ex 30.34, 35; 2 Kings 22.1, 2; Ps 19.10; Sir 32.5; #49.1 Heb: Gk memory]
prepared by the skill of the perfumer;
his memory is as sweet as honey to every mouth
and like music at a banquet of wine.
2He did what was right by reforming the people[#2 Kings 23.4–8; 2 Chr 34.3, 7, 33]
and removing the lawless abominations.
3He kept his heart fixed on the Lord;[#2 Kings 23.3, 25]
in lawless times he made godliness prevail.
4Except for David and Hezekiah and Josiah,[#v 1 ; Sir 47.1, 2; 48.17, 22]
all of them were great sinners,
for they abandoned the law of the Most High;
the kings of Judah came to an end.
5They gave their power to others[#2 Kings 16.7; 2 Chr 28.16–21; #49.5 Heb He]
and their glory to a foreign nation,
6who set fire to the chosen city of the sanctuary[#2 Kings 25.9; 2 Chr 36.19; Jer 34.22; 37.8]
and made its streets desolate,
as Jeremiah had foretold.
7For they had mistreated him,[#Jer 1.5, 10; 37.21; 38.6; Gal 1.15]
who even in the womb had been consecrated a prophet,
to pluck up and ruin and destroy
and likewise to build and to plant.
8It was Ezekiel who saw the vision of glory,[#Ezek 1.3, 4, 15]
which God showed him above the chariot of the cherubim.
9For he also mentioned Job,
who held fast to all the ways of justice.
10May the bones of the Twelve Prophets[#Sir 46.12; 2 Esd 1.39, 40]
send forth new life from where they lie,
for they comforted the people of Jacob
and delivered them with confident hope.
11How shall we magnify Zerubbabel?[#1 Chr 3.19; Hag 2.23]
He was like a signet ring on the right hand,
12and so was Jeshua son of Jozadak;[#Ezra 3.2, 8–11]
in their days they built the house
and raised a temple holy to the Lord,
prepared for everlasting glory.
13The memory of Nehemiah also is lasting;[#Neh 1.1; 3.1–32; 10.1]
he raised our fallen walls
and set up gates and bars
and rebuilt our ruined houses.
14Few have ever been created on earth like Enoch,[#Gen 5.24; Heb 11.5; #49.14 Heb Syr: Gk No one has]
for he was taken up from the earth.
15Nor was anyone ever born like Joseph;[#Gen 42.6; 45.8; 50.25; Ex 13.19; Josh 24.32; #49.15 Heb Syr: Gk adds the leader of his brothers, the support of the people]
even his bones were cared for.
16Shem and Seth and Enosh were honored,[#Gen 1.26; 5.3, 32; 11.10; #49.16 Heb: Gk Shem and Seth were honored by people]
but above every other created living being was Adam.