2 Kings 22:1-3

New English Translation

Josiah Repents

22 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother^[a] was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah, from Bozkath. ² He did what the Lord approved^[b] and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps;^[c] he did not deviate to the right or the left.

³ In the eighteenth year of King Josiah’s reign, the king sent the scribe Shaphan son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, to the Lord’s temple with these orders:^[d]