2 Kings 22:1 BBE

¹  Josiah was eight years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years; his mother's name was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.

²  He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of David his father, without turning to the right hand or to the left.

³  Now in the eighteenth year after he became king, Josiah sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying to him,