Verse Lens · Context pointer
2 Kings 22:2 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 2. 2And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
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Role in This Section
This verse closes the thought unit with its stated result or transition: “And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Josiah receives an exceptional opening evaluation.”
Read It With
- 2 Kings 22:1–2
Read 2 Kings 22:2 with 22:1–2. The selected wording supplies one closing in the thought unit with its stated result or transition; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Eight-year-old Josiah reigns thirty-one years and is described as following David without turning aside.
Why It Needs Context
2 Kings 22:2 depends on 22:1–2; isolating “And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the…” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Josiah receives an exceptional opening evaluation.”
Read 2 Kings 22:1–2 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Kings 22:1–2 forms one scene or regnal notice: Eight-year-old Josiah reigns thirty-one years and is described as following David without turning aside.
Verse 1. 1 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.
Verse 2. 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 2 Kings 22:1–2 — Josiah receives an exceptional opening evaluationSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Kings 22:1–2, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Kings
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, royal formulas, clause relationships, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Kgs.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 22:1–2
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