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2 Kings 12:1
“In the seventh year of Jehu began Jehoash to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.”
Verse in context — 2 Kings 12
1
In the seventh year of Jehu began Jehoash to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2
Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
3
However the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
About 2 Kings
The decline of both kingdoms, leading to exile in Assyria and Babylon.
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