2 Kings 11:21
Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.
2 Kings 11:21 in other translations
| BSB | Joash was seven years old when he became king. |
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| WEB | Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign. |
| ASV | Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign. |
| YLT | a son of seven years is Jehoash in his reigning. |
| DARBY | Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign. |
| BBE | And Jehoash was seven years old when he became king. |
| Webster | Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign. |
What does 2 Kings 11:21 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Kings 11:17-21
King and people would cleave most firmly to each other, when both had joined themselves to the Lord. It is well with a people, when all the changes that pass over them help to revive, strengthen, and advance the interests of religion among them. Covenants are of use, both to remind us of, and bind us to, the duties already binding on us. They immediately abolished idolatry; and, pursuant to the covenant with one…
2 Kings 11:21 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Kings 11:21
- 2 Chronicles 24:1-14
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. And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest. And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters. And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the Lord. …
- 2 Kings 22:1
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 11:4
And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the Lord, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the Lord, and shewed them the king’s son.
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Context
- 2 Kings 11:20
And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king’s house.
- 2 Kings 11:21
Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.
2 Kings 11:21 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Era Joas de siete años cuando comenzó á reinar. |
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| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Septemque annorum erat Joas, cum regnare cœpisset. |