2 Kings 11:21
 2 Kings 11:21 
New International Version (©2011)
Joash was seven years old when he began to reign.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Joash was seven years old when he became king.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Jehoash was seven years old when he became king.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Joash was seven years old when he became king.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Jehoash began to reign as king when he was seven years old,

NET Bible (©2006)
Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Joash was seven years old when he began to rule.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.

American King James Version
Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.

American Standard Version
Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now Joas was seven years old, when he began to reign.

Darby Bible Translation
Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.

English Revised Version
Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.

Webster's Bible Translation
Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.

World English Bible
Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.

Young's Literal Translation
a son of seven years is Jehoash in his reigning.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

11:17-21 King and people would cleave most firmly to each other, when both had joined themselves to the Lord. It is well with a people, when all the changes that pass over them help to revive, strengthen, and advance the interests of religion among them. Covenants are of use, both to remind us of, and bind us to, the duties already binding on us. They immediately abolished idolatry; and, pursuant to the covenant with one another, they expressed mutual readiness to help each other. The people rejoiced, and Jerusalem was quiet. The way for people to be joyful and at peace, is to engage fully in the service of God; for the voice of joy and thanksgiving is in the dwellings of the righteous, but there is no peace for the wicked.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 21. - Seven years old was Jehoash - or, Joash - when he began to reign (comp. vers. 3 and 4 and 2 Chronicles 24:1). The clause would be better placed at the beginning of the next chapter.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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.


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Jehoiada Restores the Worship of God
19And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings. 20And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house. 21Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.

2 Kings 11:2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram and sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the royal princes, who were about to be murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah; so he was not killed.
2 Chronicles 24:1 Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother's name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.