The Meaning of 2 Kings 11:21 Explained

2 Kings 11:21

KJV: Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.

YLT: a son of seven years is Jehoash in his reigning.

Darby: Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.

ASV: Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Seven  years  old  [was] Jehoash  when he began to reign. 

What does 2 Kings 11:21 Mean?

Verse Meaning

Jehoash was the youngest king to mount Judah"s throne. He began reigning at age seven and ruled for40 years (835-796 B.C.). His father was Ahaziah, the most recent male ruler of Judah, and his grandmother was Athaliah.
Jehoash followed the Law of Moses and ruled well as long as his mentor Jehoiada, the high priest, lived. However when Jehoiada died, evidently shortly after Jehoash"s temple repairs were complete ( 2 Chronicles 24:15), the king began to follow the advice of certain Judean officials who led him into unfaithfulness to Yahweh. He stubbornly refused the warnings God sent him by prophets ( 2 Chronicles 24:17-19) and by Zechariah , who had replaced his father as high priest ( 2 Chronicles 24:20-22). He even executed Zechariah. In the earlier years of his reign he was faithful to God, except that he allowed the high places of worship to remain in Judah (cf. Deuteronomy 12:2-7; Deuteronomy 12:13-14).
With the beginning of Jehoash"s reign, Judah began to enjoy over100 years of consecutive leadership by four men whom the writer of Kings judged good. None of these four (Jehoash, Amaziah, Prayer of Azariah , and Jotham) was as good for Judah as Asa and Jehoshaphat had been, or as Hezekiah or Josiah would be. Nevertheless, together they provided the longest continuous span of God-approved leadership in Judah"s history.

Chapter Summary: 2 Kings 11

1  Jehoash, being saved by Jehosheba his aunt from Athaliah's massacre,
3  is hidden six years in the house of God
13  Jehoiada, giving order to the captains, in the seventh year anoints him king
17  Jehoiada restores the worship of God

What do the individual words in 2 Kings 11:21 mean?

old seven years Jehoash [was] when he became king -
בֶּן־ שֶׁ֥בַע שָׁנִ֖ים יְהוֹאָ֥שׁ בְּמָלְכֽוֹ פ

בֶּן־  old 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: בֵּן 
Sense: son, grandson, child, member of a group.
שֶׁ֥בַע  seven 
Parse: Number, feminine singular
Root: שֶׁבַע  
Sense: seven (cardinal number).
שָׁנִ֖ים  years 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural
Root: שָׁנָה  
Sense: year.
יְהוֹאָ֥שׁ  Jehoash  [was] 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יְהֹואָשׁ  
Sense: son of king Ahaziah and the 8th king of Judah.
בְּמָלְכֽוֹ  when  he  became  king 
Parse: Preposition-b, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct, third person masculine singular
Root: מָלַךְ 
Sense: to be or become king or queen, reign.
פ  - 
Parse: Punctuation

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