2 Kings 12:1

In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash reigned. And he reigned for forty years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Zebiah from Beersheba.

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In The King James Version

In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.

In Context

2And Jehoash did what was right in the sight of the Lord, during all the days that Jehoiada, the priest, taught him.

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Cross References

2 Kings 11:1Truly, Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, seeing that her son was dead, rose up and put to death all the royal offspring.

2 Kings 13:1In the twenty-third year of Jehoash, the son of Ahaziah, the king of Judah, Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, reigned over Israel, in Samaria, for seventeen years.

1 Chronicles 3:11the father of Jehoram. And Jehoram conceived Ahaziah, from whom there was born Jehoash.

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 12:1

This chapter gives us the history of the reign of Joash, which does not answer to that glorious beginning of it which we had an account of in the foregoing chapter; he was not so illustrious at forty years old as he was at seven, yet his reign is to be reckoned one of the better sort, and appears much worse in Chronicles ( 2 Chron. xxiv. ) than it does here, for there we find the blood of one of God's prophets laid at his door; here we are only told, I. That he did well while Jehoiada lived, ver. 1-3 . II. That he… Read the whole commentary →

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