2 Kings 11:21
Joash was seven years old when he became king.
BSB
ASV
Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.
KJV
Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign. Being a year old when his father was killed and having been hid six years in the temple.
Seven years old was Jehoash - The first instance on record of making a child seven years old the king of any nation, and especially of such a nation as the Jews, who were at all times very difficult to be governed.
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2 Kings 22:1Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother’s name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath.
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Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon,
Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years.
Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amon, Amon the father of Josiah,
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2 Kings 11:4Then in the seventh year, Jehoiada sent for the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, and the guards, and had them brought into the house of the LORD. There he made a covenant with them…
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He took with him the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD and entered the…
So the commanders of hundreds did everything that Jehoiada the priest had ordered. Each of them took his men—those coming on duty on the Sabbath and those going off duty—and came to Jehoiada the…
Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people that they would be the LORD’s people. He also made a covenant between the king and the people.
Then they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul.
So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul,…