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2 Kings 22:1-3
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2 Kings 22:1-3
New English Translation
Josiah Repents
22 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother[a] was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah, from Bozkath. 2 He did what the Lord approved[b] and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps;[c] he did not deviate to the right or the left.
3 In the eighteenth year of King Josiah’s reign, the king sent the scribe Shaphan son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, to the Lord’s temple with these orders:[d]
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- 2 Kings 22:1 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”
- 2 Kings 22:2 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord.”
- 2 Kings 22:2 tn Heb “and walked in all the way of David his father.”
- 2 Kings 22:3 tn Heb “temple, saying.”
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