2 Kings 22:1-3

New King James Version

Josiah Reigns in Judah^(A)

22 Josiah ^(B)was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of ^(C)Bozkath. ² And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the ways of his father David; he ^(D)did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

Hilkiah Finds the Book of the Law^(E)

^3 (F)Now it came to pass, in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the scribe, the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, to the house of the Lord, saying: