2 Chronicles 34:1
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New International Version (©2011)
Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Josiah was eight years old when he became king and reigned 31 years in Jerusalem.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for 31 years in Jerusalem.

NET Bible (©2006)
Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Josiah was 8 years old when he began to rule, and he was king for 31 years in Jerusalem.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.

American King James Version
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.

American Standard Version
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Josias was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one and thirty years in Jerusalem.

Darby Bible Translation
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

English Revised Version
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem.

Webster's Bible Translation
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.

World English Bible
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

Young's Literal Translation
A son of eight years is Josiah in his reigning, and thirty and one years he hath reigned in Jerusalem,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

34:1-33 Josiah's good reign in Judah. - As the years of infancy cannot be useful to our fellow-creatures, our earliest youth should be dedicated to God, that we may not waste any of the remaining short space of life. Happy and wise are those who seek the Lord and prepare for usefulness at an early age, when others are pursuing sinful pleasures, contracting bad habits, and forming ruinous connexions. Who can express the anguish prevented by early piety, and its blessed effects? Diligent self-examination and watchfulness will convince us of the deceitfulness and wickedness of our own hearts, and the sinfulness of our lives. We are here encouraged to humble ourselves before God, and to seek unto him, as Josiah did. And believers are here taught, not to fear death, but to welcome it, when it takes them away from the evil to come. Nothing hastens the ruin of a people, nor ripens them for it, more than their disregard of the attempts made for their reformation. Be not deceived, God is not mocked. The current and tide of affections only turns at the command of Him who raises up those that are dead in trespasses and sins. We behold peculiar loveliness, in the grace the Lord bestows on those, who in tender years seek to know and to love the Saviour. Hath Jesus, the Day-spring from on high, visited you? Can you trace your knowledge of this light and life of man, like Josiah, from your youth? Oh the unspeakable happiness of becoming acquainted with Jesus from our earliest years!

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 1. - Again the name of the mother is omitted. From the parallel we learn she was "Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath."

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign,.... Of these two verses; see Gill on 2 Kings 22:1; see Gill on 2 Kings 22:2.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

CHAPTER 34

2Ch 34:1, 2. Josiah's Good Reign.

1. Josiah was eight years old—(See on [473]2Ki 22:1). The testimony borne to the undeviating steadfastness of his adherence to the cause of true religion places his character and reign in honorable contrast with those of many of his royal predecessors.

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Josiah's Good Reign in Judah
1Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years. 2And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left. 3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

2 Kings 22:1 Josiah 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.
2 Kings 22:2 He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and followed completely the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or to the left.
2 Chronicles 33:25 Then the people of the land killed all who had plotted against King Amon, and they made Josiah his son king in his place.
Jeremiah 1:2 The word of the LORD came to him in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah,
Jeremiah 3:6 During the reign of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, "Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has committed adultery there.
Jeremiah 25:3 For twenty-three years--from the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day--the word of the LORD has come to me and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.
Zephaniah 1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, during the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah: