Just like Jesus said...Love the Lord with all!

2nd Kings 23: 3 And the king [Josiah] stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people joined in the covenant

2nd Kings 23: 24 that he [King Josiah] might establish the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord. 25 Before 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 might, according to all the Law of Moses, nor did any like him arise after him.

I can't help but wonder what King David thinks of this... Josiah being described this way. After all 1st Samuel 16:7 describes David as being "a man after [God's] heart, for he will do everything I want him to," (also 1 Samuel 13:14) among others. I wonder if there is a difference semantically that makes a world (especially in the spiritual one) of difference...seeking God with your heart vs. loving, trusting, obeying with all your heart. Even so, now as then, God calls his people to do the same.

Joel 2: 12 “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
“return to me with all your heart,
with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
13 and rend your hearts and not your garments.”