2 Chronicles 34:1
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years.”
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“Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“A son of eight years <FI>is<Fi> Josiah in his reigning, and thirty and one years he hath reigned in Jerusalem,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Chronicles 34:1 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 2:18Now Samuel was ministering before the LORD—a boy wearing a linen ephod.
- 1 Samuel 2:26And the boy Samuel continued to grow in stature and in favor with the LORD and with man.
- 1 Kings 3:7And now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king in my father David’s place. But I am only a little child, not knowing how to go out or come in.
- 1 Kings 13:2And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’”
- 2 Kings 22:1Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother’s name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath.
- 2 Kings 23:1Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
- 1 Chronicles 3:14Amon his son, and Josiah his son.
- 2 Chronicles 24:1Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.
- 2 Chronicles 26:1All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
- 2 Chronicles 33:1Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years.
- 2 Chronicles 33:25But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.
- Ecclesiastes 4:13Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.
- Jeremiah 1:2The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah,
- Zephaniah 1:1This is the word of the LORD that came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah:
- Matthew 1:10Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amon, Amon the father of Josiah,
- Matthew 25:16The servant who had received the five talents went at once and put them to work and gained five more.
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