CHAPTER EXPLORER
2 Kings 22
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20 verses in KJV · 227 outgoing cross-reference links
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Opening verses of 2 Kings 22 (KJV)
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.
22:2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
22:3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, [that] the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,
Historical / attribution context
Traditional writer attribution: Jeremiah
Approximate study chronology: c. 642 BC to c. 641 BC
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