2 Kings 22:1

Josias was eight years old when he began to reign: he reigned one and thirty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Idida, the daughter of Hadaia, of Besecath.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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 that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the ways of David his father: he turned not aside to the right hand, or to the left.

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Cross References

Joshua 15:39Lachis and Bascath and Eglon,

2 Kings 11:21Now Joas was seven years old, when he began to reign.

2 Kings 21:24But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amen: and made Josias his son their king in his stead.

2 Chronicles 34:1Josias was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one and thirty years in Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 10:16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and when the princes eat in the morning.

Jeremiah 1:2The word of the Lord which came to him in the days of Josias the son of Amon king of Juda, 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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