2 Kings 22:1-3

Revised Geneva Translation

22 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign. And he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. Also, his mother’s name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.

² And he did uprightly in the sight of the LORD and walked in all the ways of David, his father, and bowed neither to the right hand nor to the left.

³ And in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the chancellor, to the House of the LORD, saying,