2 Kings 12:1

In the seventh year of Jehu Joas began to reign: and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Sebia of Bersabee.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 Joas did that which was right before the Lord all the days that Joiada the priest taught him.

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Cross References

2 Kings 11:1And Athalia the mother of Ochozias seeing that her son was dead, arose, and slew all the royal seed.

2 Kings 13:1In the three and twentieth year of Joas son of Ochozias king of Juda, Joachaz the son of Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria, seventeen years.

1 Chronicles 3:11The father of Joram: and Joram be- got Ochozias, of whom was born Joas:

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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