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Selected Verse: 2 Kings 18:2 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Ki 18:2 |
Strong Concordance |
Twenty [06242] and five [02568] years [08141] old [01121] was he when he began to reign [04427]; and he reigned [04427] twenty [06242] and nine [08672] years [08141] in Jerusalem [03389]. His mother's [0517] name [08034] also was Abi [021], the daughter [01323] of Zachariah [02148]. |
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King James |
Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Twenty and five years old was he - This statement, combined with that of Kg2 16:2, would make it necessary that his father Ahaz should have married at the age of 10, and have had a child born to him when he was 11 years of age. This is not impossible; but its improbability is so great, that most commentators suggest a corruption in some of the numbers.
The Zachariah here mentioned was perhaps one of the "faithful witnesses" of Isaiah Isa 8:2. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| To reign - It is not certain that Ahaz lived only thirty six years, for those sixteen years which he reigned, may be computed, not from the first beginning of his reign, when he reigned with his father; which was at the twentieth year of his age, but from the beginning of his reigning alone. |
2 And I took [05749] unto me faithful [0539] witnesses [05707] to record [05749], Uriah [0223] the priest [03548], and Zechariah [02148] the son [01121] of Jeberechiah [03000].
2 Twenty [06242] years [08141] old [01121] was Ahaz [0271] when he began to reign [04427], and reigned [04427] sixteen [08337] [06240] years [08141] in Jerusalem [03389], and did [06213] not that which was right [03477] in the sight [05869] of the LORD [03068] his God [0430], like David [01732] his father [01].