2 Kings 23:23

23 sicut in octavodecimo anno regis Iosiae factum est phase istud Domino in Hierusalem

2 Kings 23:23 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 23:23

But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this
passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem.
] This shows that Josiah must begin the reformation very early that year, since he did all that is before recorded in this and the preceding chapter by the fourteenth of Nisan, the day on which the passover was kept, which month answers to part of our March and part of April, see ( 2 Kings 22:3 ) and was the same year the repairs of the temple were finished.

2 Kings 23:23 In-Context

21 et praecepit omni populo dicens facite phase Domino Deo vestro secundum quod scriptum est in libro foederis huiu

22 nec enim factum est phase tale a diebus iudicum qui iudicaverunt Israhel et omnium dierum regum Israhel et regum Iuda

23 sicut in octavodecimo anno regis Iosiae factum est phase istud Domino in Hierusalem

24 sed et pythones et ariolos et figuras idolorum et inmunditias abominationesque quae fuerant in terra Iuda et in Hierusalem abstulit Iosias ut statueret verba legis quae scripta sunt in libro quem invenit Helcias sacerdos in templo Domini

25 similis illi non fuit ante eum rex qui reverteretur ad Dominum in omni corde suo et in tota anima sua et in universa virtute sua iuxta omnem legem Mosi neque post eum surrexit similis illi