Isaiah 3:4
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4 And I will make youths their princes,
and children shall rule over them.(A)
Ecclesiastes 10:16
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16 Alas for you, O land, when your king is a child
and your princes feast in the morning!(A)
2 Chronicles 36:9
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Reign and Captivity of Jehoiachin
9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign; he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.(A)
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2 Chronicles 36:11
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Reign of Zedekiah
11 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.(A)
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2 Chronicles 36:5
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Reign and Captivity of Jehoiakim
5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord his God.(A)
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2 Chronicles 34:1
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Reign of Josiah
34 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.(A)
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2 Chronicles 33:1
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Reign of Manasseh
33 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.(A)
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1 Kings 3:7-9
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7 And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David, although I am only a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in.(A) 8 And your servant is in the midst of the people whom you have chosen, a great people so numerous they cannot be numbered or counted.(B) 9 Give your servant, therefore, an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil, for who can govern this great people of yours?”(C)
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2 Chronicles 36:2
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2 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
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