2 Kings 22:1 · KJV
“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.”
— 2 Kings 22:1
2 Kings 22 — Context
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.
2And he did {that which was} right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
3And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, {that} the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,
Cross References
Joshua 15:39
Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,
2 Chronicles 34:1-33
Josiah {was} eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
Ecclesiastes 10:16
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king {is} a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
Psalms 8:2
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. {ordained: Heb. founded}
2 Kings 11:21
Seven years old {was} Jehoash when he began to reign.
Isaiah 3:4
And I will give children {to be} their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
1 Kings 13:2
And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.
2 Kings 21:1
Manasseh {was} twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name {was} Hephzibah.