2 Kings 11:21

21 Jehoash [was] {seven years old} when he began to reign.

2 Kings 11:21 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 11:21

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.

2 Kings 11:21 In-Context

19 He took the commanders of the hundreds and the Carites and the runners and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the temple of Yahweh. And they marched by the way of the runner's gate [to] the palace of the king, and he sat on the throne of the kings.

20 All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city rested; [for] Athaliah had been killed with the sword in the palace of the king.

21 Jehoash [was] {seven years old} when he began to reign.

Footnotes

• [a] 2 Kings 11:21-12:21 in the English Bible is 2 Kings 12:1-22 in the Hebrew Bible
• [b] Literally "a son of seven years"