Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign,.... Alone, after the death of his father:
and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and his reign, upon the whole, was a good reign:
and his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok; a person well known in those times; Dr. Lightfoot h thinks he was high priest.
h Works, vol. 1. p. 100.