⁴ And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

¹⁶ Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

⁹ Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.

¹¹ Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.

⁵ Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God.

34 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.

33 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:

⁷ And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.

⁸ And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

⁹ Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?

² Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.