2 Kings 12:1
Joash Repairs the Temple
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In the seventh year of Jehu, Joasha became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.
Read 2 Kings 12:1 Using Other Translations
In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
Joash began to rule over Judah in the seventh year of King Jehu’s reign in Israel. He reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother was Zibiah from Beersheba.
What does 2 Kings 12:1 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
2 Kings 12:1
In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to
reign
So that he reigned twenty one or twenty two years contemporary
with Jehu's reign, for Jehu reigned twenty eight years:
and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem;
the same number of years David and Solomon reigned:
and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba;
a city in the tribe of Simeon, in the extreme part of the land of
Canaan southward; her name in the Chaldee dialect is Tabitha, the
same with Dorcas in Greek, ( Acts 9:36 ) .
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