2Ki 18:2 | NET2full | STEP | He was twenty - five years old when he began to reign , and he reigned twenty - nine years in Jerusalem . His mother was Abi , the daughter of Zechariah .

‏ 2 Kings 18:2

2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother ^{▼▼tn Heb “the name of his mother.”} was Abi, ^{▼▼tn The parallel passage in 2 Chr 29:1 has “Abijah.”} the daughter of Zechariah.