2 Kings 18:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 29:1-2
Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

We have here a general account of the reign of Hezekiah. It appears, by comparing his age with his father’s, that he was born when his father was about eleven or twelve years old, divine Providence so ordering that he might be of full age, and fit for business, when the measure of his father’s iniquity should be full. Here is, I. His great piety, which was the more wonderful because his father was…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2Ki 18:1-3. Hezekiah’s Good Reign. 1-2. Hezekiah ... began to reign. Twenty and five years old--According to this statement (compare 2Ki 16:2), he must have been born when his father Ahaz was no more than eleven years old. Paternity at an age so early is not unprecedented in the warm climates of the south, where the human frame is matured sooner than in our northern regions. But the case admits of…