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Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.
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Verse 1. Eight years. After he had reigned other eight, being still but a boy, he began more seriously to seek the Lord, and purified his dominions, and the neighbouring country, from all the vestiges of idolatry. 2 Chronicles 33:3. He was one of the three most excellent kings of Juda, ( Bible.) and might be said to be the last; as those who followed were displaced at pleasure by Egypt, and so forth D.
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