2 Kings 22:1

Josiah was eight years old when he had begun to reign. He reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah, from Bozkath.

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Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.

In Context

2And he did what was pleasing before the Lord, and he walked in all the ways of his father David. He did not turn aside to the right, or to the left.

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Cross References

Joshua 15:39Lachish and Bozkath and Eglon,

2 Kings 11:21Now Jehoash was seven years old when he had begun to reign.

2 Kings 21:24But the people of the land slew all those who had conspired against king Amon. And they appointed for themselves Josiah, his son, as king in his place.

2 Chronicles 34:1Josiah was eight years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 10:16Woe to you, the land whose king is a boy, and whose princes consume in the morning.

Jeremiah 1:2The word of the Lord, which came to him in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign,

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 22:1

This chapter begins the story of the reign of good king Josiah, whose goodness shines the brighter because it came just after so much wickedness, which he had the honour to reform, and just before so great a destruction, which yet he had not the honour to prevent. Here, after his general character ( ver. 1, 2 ), we have a particular account of the respect he paid I. To God's house, which he repaired, ver. 3-7 II. To God's book, which he was much affected with the reading of, ver. 8-11 III. To God's messengers,… Read the whole commentary →

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