⁴ And I will make children their chiefs, and foolish ones will have rule over them.

¹⁶ Unhappy is the land whose king is a boy, and whose rulers are feasting in the morning.

⁷ And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in the place of David my father; and I am only a young boy, with no knowledge of how to go out or come in.

⁸ And your servant has round him the people of your selection, a people so great that they may not be numbered, and no account of them may be given.

⁹ Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people?

¹ Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he was ruling for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

¹ Josiah was eight years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years.

² Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months.

⁵ Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God.

⁹ Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months and ten days, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

¹¹ Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years.