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Luke 24:1–35 Jesus Walks the Road to Emmaus

Now that very day two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.
They were talking to each other about all the things that had happened.
While they were talking and debating these things, Jesus himself approached and began to accompany them
(but their eyes were kept from recognizing him).
Then he said to them, “What are these matters you are discussing so intently as you walk along?” And they stood still, looking sad.
Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things that have happened there in these days?”
He said to them, “What things?” “The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene,” they replied, “a man who, with his powerful deeds and words, proved to be a prophet before God and all the people;
and how our chief priests and leaders handed him over to be condemned to death, and crucified him.
But we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. Not only this, but it is now the third day since these things happened.
Furthermore, some women of our group amazed us. They were at the tomb early this morning,
and when they did not find his body, they came back and said they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.
Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see him.”
So he said to them, “You foolish people—how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
Wasn’t it necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and enter into his glory?”
Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things written about himself in all the Scriptures.
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They said to each other, “Didn’t our hearts burn within us while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?”

2 Kings 23 – Josiah Discovers the Lost Old Testament

In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent the court secretary… to the workmen in the Lord’s temple to repair the damage. ⁶They are to give [silver] to the carpenters, builders, and masons to buy timber and quarried stone to repair the temple.
The high priest Hilkiah told the court secretary Shaphan, “I have found the book of the law in the Lord’s temple,” and he gave the book to Shaphan, who read it…
and Shaphan read it in the presence of the king.
When the king heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes.

Chapter 23 Covenant Renewal

So the king sent messengers, and they gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem to him.
Then the king went to the Lord’s temple with all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the prophets — all the people from the youngest to the oldest. He read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that had been found in the Lord’s temple.
Next, the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant in the Lord’s presence to follow the Lord and to keep his commands, his decrees, and his statutes with all his heart and with all his soul in order to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book; all the people agreed to the covenant.
Then the king commanded… to bring out of the Lord’s sanctuary all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the stars in the sky. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
Then he did away with the idolatrous priests the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense at the high places in the cities of Judah and in the areas surrounding Jerusalem. They had burned incense to Baal, and to the sun, moon, constellations, and all the stars in the sky.… ⁷He also tore down the houses of the male cult prostitutes that were in the Lord’s temple, in which the women were weaving tapestries for Asherah.
The king commanded all the people, “Observe the Passover of the Lord your God as written in the book of the covenant.” ²²No such Passover had ever been observed from the time of the judges who judged Israel through the entire time of the kings of Israel and Judah. ²³But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the Lord’s Passover was observed in Jerusalem.
In addition, Josiah eradicated the mediums, the spiritists, household idols, images, and all the abhorrent things that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this in order to carry out the words of the law that were written in the book that the priest Hilkiah found in the Lord’s temple. ²⁵Before him there was no king like him who turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength according to all the law of Moses, and no one like him arose after him.