Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageHe was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jerusha daughter of Zadok.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GHe was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim. His mother's name was Yerushah daughter of Tsadok.
KJV
King James VersionFive and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleHe was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. His mother’s name was Jerusha daughter of Zadok.
Footnotes
The name *Yerushah* (יְרוּשָׁה) means 'possession' or 'inheritance' — carrying the resonance of covenant land-gift for a queen mother of the Davidic line. Her father *Tsadok* (צָדוֹק) shares his name with the founding high priest of the Jerusalem temple dynasty (2 Sam. 8:17), suggesting either priestly lineage or honour paid to that tradition. The consistent naming of mothers in Judah's regnal formulae — absent in parallel formulae for Israel's kings — reflects the covenantal importance of Davidic dynastic continuity: the mother's identity was theologically, not merely genealogically, significant.
