📖WEB · 2 Kings 11:21
What does 2 Kings 11:21 mean?
"Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign."
— 2 Kings 11:21 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over Yahweh’s house.
He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from Yahweh’s house, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house. He sat on the throne of the kings.
So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with the sword at the king’s house.
Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.
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