2 Chronicles 34:1

¹The LORD’s ^[+] word which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.

²The LORD’s ^[+] word came to him in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

¹⁸But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.

¹All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.

¹Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beersheba.

¹³Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.

⁷Now, LORD my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am just a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in. ⁸Your servant is among your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude. ⁹Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

²He cried against the altar by the LORD’s word, and said, “Altar! Altar! The LORD says: ‘Behold, a son will be born to David’s house, Josiah by name. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and they will burn men’s bones on you.’”

¹⁰Hezekiah became the father of Manasseh. Manasseh became the father of Amon. Amon became the father of Josiah. ¹¹Josiah became the father of Jechoniah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.

²⁵But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.