“In the second year of Pekah ... began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign. Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem” (2 Kings xv, 32, 33).
“And Hoshea ... slew him [Pekah] and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziab” (2 Kings xv, 30).
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Who was Josiah’s successor?
“Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s stead” (2 Chron. xxxvi, 1).
“For thus saith the Lord touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah which reigned instead of Josiah his father” (Jer. xxli, 11).
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How old was Jehoiachin when he began to reign?