2 Chronicles 34:3

Contextual Overview

¹Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. ¹ Yoshiyahu was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Yerushalayim. ¹ Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years. ¹ Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. ¹ Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he ruled thirty-one years in Jerusalem. ¹ Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. ¹Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. ¹ Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. ¹ Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. ¹ Iosiah was eight yeere olde when hee began to reigne, and he reigned in Ierusalem one and thirtie yeere.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3370, bc 634 2 Kings 18:4

while he: 1 Chronicles 22:5, 1 Chronicles 29:1, Psalms 119:9, Ecclesiastes 12:1, 2 Timothy 3:15

to seek: 2 Chronicles 15:2, 1 Chronicles 28:9, Proverbs 8:17, Matthew 6:33

purge: 2 Chronicles 33:17, 2 Chronicles 33:22, Leviticus 26:30, 2 Kings 23:4, 2 Kings 23:14

the high places: 2 Chronicles 30:14

Reciprocal: Exodus 23:24 - overthrow Exodus 34:13 - ye shall Deuteronomy 12:3 - and burn Judges 3:7 - the groves 1 Kings 18:12 - from my youth 2 Kings 10:27 - brake down the image 2 Kings 15:4 - the high places 2 Kings 16:2 - did not 2 Kings 20:5 - the God 2 Kings 21:3 - the high places 2 Kings 22:3 - in the 2 Chronicles 17:6 - he took away 2 Chronicles 29:3 - He in the first 2 Chronicles 29:5 - sanctify the house 2 Chronicles 31:1 - brake 2 Chronicles 33:4 - he built 2 Chronicles 34:33 - took away Isaiah 30:22 - defile Isaiah 38:5 - God Jeremiah 25:3 - thirteenth Amos 5:4 - Seek Matthew 20:2 - he sent

Cross-References

Ruth 1:14
Again they wept loudly, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

Ruth 1:14
They lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Rut joined with her.

Ruth 1:14
And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.

Ruth 1:14
And they lifted up their voices and cried again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.

Ruth 1:14
Then they lifted up their voices and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

Ruth 1:14
The women cried together out loud again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law Naomi good-bye, but Ruth held on to her tightly.

Ruth 1:14
Again they wept loudly. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung tightly to her.

Ruth 1:14
Then they wept aloud again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law [goodbye], but Ruth clung to her.

Ruth 1:14
And they raised their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

Ruth 1:14
Then they lift vp their voyce and wept againe, and Orpah kissed her mother in lawe, but Ruth abode still with her.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young,.... Being in the sixteenth year of his age; though Kimchi thinks it was the very year he began to reign, which was the eighth of his age; and Jarchi observes, it may be interpreted, "though he was young, he began to seek after the God of David his father"; to pray unto him, to seek after the knowledge of him, and the true manner of worshipping him, what were his will, commands, and ordinances; the Targum is,

"to seek instruction or doctrine of the Lord God of David his father,''

to be taught his ways, such as David his great ancestor walked in, and whom he chose to follow:

and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves and the carved images, and the molten images; which were made in the times of Manasseh; and though removed by him when humbled, were restored in the reign of Amon. Now Josiah purged the land from these, by putting them down, and destroying them; and this he did when he was twenty years of age, having now more authority, being out of his minority, and from under guardians, and one year before Jeremiah began to prophesy, Jeremiah 1:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He began to purge Judah - Jeremiah’s first prophecies Jer. 2–3 appear to have been coincident with Josiah’s earlier efforts to uproot idolatry, and must have greatly strengthened his hands.