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Chapter 22

Reign of Josiah.[a] Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah, and she was the daughter of Adaiah from Bozkath.

He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and he walked in the ways of David, his father. He did not wander off to the right or to the left.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 22:1 Josiah, a new David and a new Hezekiah, is a king according to God’s heart. The reader desiring to follow the religious developments and political vicissitudes of this final period of the kingdom of Judah should read the relevant passages in Jeremiah, which make known the positions taken by the prophet as events followed ever faster on one another. See also 2 Chr 34–35.