KJV King James Version
Seven years old [was] Jehoash when he began to reign.
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2 Kings 11:21
Seven years old [was] Jehoash when he began to reign.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Joash was seven years old when he became king.
WEB World English Bible
Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.
ASV American Standard Version
Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
a son of seven years is Jehoash in his reigning.
Surrounding context — 2 Kings 11
18 And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.
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.
21 Seven years old [was] Jehoash when he began to reign.
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2 Chronicles 24:1-14Joash [was] seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also [was] Zibiah of Beersheba.2 Kings 11:4And 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.2 Kings 22:1Josiah [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.
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