2 Chronicles 34:1
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
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Compare
- BSB
- Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years.
- KJV
- Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
- WEB
- Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
- ASV
- Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem.
- DARBY
- Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
- BLB
- Josiah [was] a son of eight years in his reigning, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
- ÅB
- Josias var åtte år gammel da han ble konge, og han regjerte en og tretti år i Jerusalem.
- OTB
- Josjia var åtte år gammel da han begynte å regjere, og han regjerte i trettien år i Jerusalem.
- B1930
- Josias var åtte år gammel da han blev konge, og han regjerte en og tretti år i Jerusalem.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Zephaniah 1:1
The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.
Read in contextJeremiah 1:2
To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
Read in context1 Chronicles 3:14–15
Amon his son, Josiah his son.
Read in context2 Chronicles 24:1
Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
Read in context2 Chronicles 33:25
But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
Read in context2 Chronicles 26:1
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
Read in context2 Kings 22:1–20
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.
Read in context1 Kings 3:7–9
And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
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