2 Kings 11:21
New International Version
Joash was seven years old when he began to reign.

New Living Translation
Joash was seven years old when he became king.

English Standard Version
Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.

Berean Standard Bible
Joash was seven years old when he became king.

King James Bible
Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.

New King James Version
Jehoash was seven years old when he became king.

New American Standard Bible
Jehoash was seven years old when he became king.

NASB 1995
Jehoash was seven years old when he became king.

NASB 1977
Jehoash was seven years old when he became king.

Legacy Standard Bible
Jehoash was seven years old when he became king.

Amplified Bible
Jehoash (Joash) was seven years old when he became king.

Christian Standard Bible
Joash was seven years old when he became king.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Joash was seven years old when he became king.

American Standard Version
Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Yoash was a son of seven years when he became king.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Joas was seven years old when he began to reign.

Contemporary English Version
Joash was only seven years old when this happened.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now Joas was seven years old, when he began to reign.

English Revised Version
Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Joash was seven years old when he began to rule.

Good News Translation
Joash became king of Judah at the age of seven.

International Standard Version
Jehoash began to reign as king when he was seven years old,

JPS Tanakh 1917
Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.

Literal Standard Version
Jehoash is a son of seven years in his reigning.

Majority Standard Bible
Joash was seven years old when he became king.

New American Bible
Joash was seven years old when he became king.

NET Bible
Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.

New Revised Standard Version
Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.

New Heart English Bible
Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.

Webster's Bible Translation
Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.

World English Bible
Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.

Young's Literal Translation
a son of seven years is Jehoash in his reigning.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Jehoiada Restores the Worship of the LORD
20and all the people of the land rejoiced. And the city was quiet, because Athaliah had been put to the sword at the royal palace. 21Joash was seven years old when he became king.

Cross References
2 Kings 11:2
But Jehosheba daughter of King Joram, the sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah, and he was not killed.

2 Chronicles 24:1
Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother's name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.


Treasury of Scripture

Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.

2 Kings 11:4
And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son.

2 Kings 22:1
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.

2 Chronicles 24:1
Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Zibiah of Beersheba.

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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














(21) Seven years old was Jehoash.--The Hebrew editions connect this verse with chapter 12.

Verse 21. - Seven years old was Jehoash - or, Joash - when he began to reign (comp. vers. 3 and 4 and 2 Chronicles 24:1). The clause would be better placed at the beginning of the next chapter.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Joash
יְהוֹאָ֥שׁ (yə·hō·w·’āš)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3060: Joash -- 'Yah is strong', the name of several Israelites

[was] seven
שֶׁ֥בַע (še·ḇa‘)
Number - feminine singular
Strong's 7651: Seven, seven times, a week, an indefinite number

years old
בֶּן־ (ben-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1121: A son

when he became king.
בְּמָלְכֽוֹ׃ (bə·mā·lə·ḵōw)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4427: To reign, inceptively, to ascend the throne, to induct into royalty, to take counsel


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