2 Kings 18:2
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.
2 Kings 18:2 in other translations
| 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. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | a son of twenty and five years was he in his reigning, and twenty and nine years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother is Abi 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. |
| BBE | He was twenty-five years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah. |
| Webster | 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. |
What does 2 Kings 18:2 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 18:1-2
2Ki 18:1-3. Hezekiah's Good Reign. 1-2. Hezekiah ... began to reign. Twenty and five years old--According to this statement (compare 2Ki 16:2), he must have been born when his father Ahaz was no more than eleven years old. Paternity at an age so early is not unprecedented in the warm climates of the south, where the human frame is matured sooner than in our northern regions. But the case admits of solution in a…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Kings 18:1-8
Hezekiah was a true son of David. Some others did that which was right, but not like David. Let us not suppose that when times and men are bad, they must needs grow worse and worse; that does not follow: after many bad kings, God raised one up like David himself. The brazen serpent had been carefully preserved, as a memorial of God's goodness to their fathers in the wilderness; but it was idle and wicked to burn…
2 Kings 18:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Kings 18:2
- 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. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.
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Abijah.
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Context
- 2 Kings 18:1
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.
- 2 Kings 18:2
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.
- 2 Kings 18:3
And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did.
2 Kings 18:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Cuando comenzó á reinar era de veinticinco años, y reinó en Jerusalem veintinueve años. El nombre de su madre fué Abi hija de Zachârías. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il était âgé de 25 ans lorsqu’il commença de régner; et il régna 29 ans à Jérusalem; et le nom de sa mère était Abi, fille de Zacharie. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Jahre war er alt, als er König wurde, und er regierte 29 Jahre zu Jerusalem; und der Name seiner Mutter war Abi, die Tochter Sekarjas. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Viginti quinque annorum erat cum regnare cœpisset, et viginti novem annis regnavit in Jerusalem: nomen matris ejus Abi filia Zachariæ. |