2 Chronicles 35: 24 So they lifted Josiah out of his chariot and placed him in another chariot. Then they brought him back to Jerusalem, where he died. He was buried there in the royal cemetery. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for him. 25 The prophet Jeremiah composed funeral songs for Josiah, and to this day choirs still sing these sad songs about his death. These songs of sorrow have become a tradition and are recorded in The Book of Laments.
A great lament for the last great reign of a godly king was written to Josiah by no less than the [weeping] prophet, Jeremiah. It was a prophetic lament, signifying not just the loss of a great leader, but the turning away of God's favor, thus commencing their captivity to Babylon.
The timeline would suggest that Daniel and his generation of excellent men were taken into captivity shortly after Josiah's reign. This would lead me to sumise that Josiah's passion for God may have rubbed off on them. Or on their parents. At the very least, the revival left a remnant that would later usher in the rebuilding of the temple and walls of Jerusalem.
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