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2 Chronicles 34:1-2 KJV
2 Chronicles · chapter 34 · verses 1–2
1Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years. 2And 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.2 Chronicles 34:1-2 · King James Version
2 Chronicles 34:1-2 in context
1Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
2And 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.
3For 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.
4And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
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Key words (Strong's)
- JerusalemYᵉrûwshâlaimJerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of PalestineH3389 →
- declinedçûwrto turn offH5493 →
- JosiahYôʼshîyâhJoshijah, the name of two IsraelitesH2977 →
- thirtyshᵉlôwshîymthirtyH7970 →
- walkedyâlakto walkH3212 →
- fatherʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- eightshᵉmôneha cardinal number, eightH8083 →
- yearsshâneha yearH8141 →
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Concerning Josiah we are here told, 1. That he came to the crown when he was very young, only eight years old (yet his infancy did not debar him from his right), and he reigned thirty-one years (Ch2 34:1), a considerable time.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-7