2 Kings 18:2
1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.
4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
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- BSB
- He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.
- KJV
- Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
- WEB
- He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.
- ASV
- Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother`s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.
- DARBY
- He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Abi, daughter of Zechariah.
- BLB
- He was a son of twenty-five years in his reigning, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother [was] Abi daughter of Zechariah.
- ÅB
- Han var fem og tyve år gammel da han ble konge, og han regjerte ni og tyve år i Jerusalem; hans mor hette Abi og var datter av Sakarja.
- OTB
- Han var tjuefem år gammel da han begynte å regjere, og han regjerte i tjue-ni år i Jerusalem. Hans mor var Abi, datter av Sakarja.
- B1930
- Han var fem og tyve år gammel da han blev konge, og han regjerte ni og tyve år i Jerusalem; hans mor hette Abi og var datter av Sakarja.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Chronicles 29:1–2
Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
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