2 Kings 11:21
Joas was + 11:21 Gr. a son of seven years in his reigning. seven years old when he began to reign.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.
In Context
Cross References
2 Kings 12:1Joas + 12:1 Gr. reigned. began to reign in the seventh year of Ju, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Sabia of Bersabee.
2 Chronicles 24:1Joas was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Sabia of Bersabee.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 11:18-21
17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people, that they should be the Lord 's people; between the king also and the people. 18 And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the Lord . 19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land;… Read the whole commentary →