²⁴ The common people^[a] killed^(A) all who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah^(B) king in his place.

Judah’s King Josiah

22 Josiah^(A) was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath.^(B)

³ ‘From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon,^(A) king of Judah, until this very day – twenty-three years – the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken to you time and time again,^[a](B) but you have not obeyed.

² ‘Take a scroll,^(A) and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations from the time I first spoke to you during Josiah’s reign until today.

1 The word of the Lord that came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah,^(A) in the days of Josiah^(B) son of Amon,^(C) king of Judah.