Josiah [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
Ver. 1. Josiah was eight years old.] Josiah he was called by God two or three hundred years before he was born. 1Ki 13:2 His name signifieth, The salvation of God: and he answered his name better than did Probus the emperor; of whom, notwithstanding, the historian saith, a that if Honest had not been his name, yet it might well have been his surname. Some say, but not so well, that he was called Josiah, q., Jah-scai, that is, the gift of God, or, q., Jah-esch, that is, the fire of God, sc., for his zeal, which is called the flame of God. Son 8:6
And his mother's name was Jedidah,] i.e., The Lord's darling, as his grandmother's name was Hephzibah; 2Ki 21:1 a couple of good women likely, doing the same for Josiah as afterward Eunice and Lois did for young Timothy.
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