2 Kings 22:1-3
2 Kings 22:1
Josiah was 8 years old when he began to rule, and he was king for 31 years in Jerusalem. His mother was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah from Bozkath.
2 Kings 22:2
Josiah did what the Lord considered right. He lived in the ways of his ancestor David and never stopped.
2 Kings 22:3
In Josiah’s eighteenth year as king of Judah, he sent the scribe Shaphan, son of Azaliah and grandson of Meshullam, to the Lord’s temple with these instructions: