2 Kings 12:1

In the seventh year of Jehu reigned hath Jehoash, and forty years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Zibiah of Beer-Sheba,

Young's Literal Translation

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 doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah all his days in which Jehoiada the priest directed him,

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Cross References

2 Kings 11:1And Athaliah [is] mother of Ahaziah, and she hath seen that her son [is] dead, and she riseth, and destroyeth all the seed of the kingdom;

2 Kings 13:1In the twenty and third year of Joash son of Ahaziah king of Judah, hath Jehoahaz son of Jehu reigned over Israel, in Samaria — seventeen years,

1 Chronicles 3:11Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,

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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