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reign

Meaning of “reign”

Sense 1: To exercise kingly rule, dominion, governing power, or controlling power. Sense 2: Royal rule or dominion, or the period during which a ruler governs.

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168 occurrences162 verses28 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 37:8

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2 Chronicles 29:3
¶ He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 29:3 · retained source text

¶ He, in the first yere of his reigne, in the first moneth, opened the doores of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.

2 Chronicles 29:19
Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 29:19 · retained source text

Moreouer all the vessels which king Ahaz in his reigne did cast away in his transgression, haue we prepared and sanctified, and behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 33:1
MANASSEH was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 33:1 · retained source text

¶ Manasseh was twelue yeeres old when he began to reigne, and he reigned fiftie and fiue yeres in Ierusalem:

1611 marginal note2.King. 21.1. &c.

2 Chronicles 33:21
¶ Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 33:21 · retained source text

¶ Amon was two and twentie yeeres old, when he beganne to reigne, and reigned two yeares in Ierusalem.

1611 marginal note2.Kin. 21.19. &c.

2 Chronicles 34:1
JOSIAH was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 34:1 · retained source text

¶ Iosiah was eight yeeres old when hee beganne to reigne, and he reigned in Ierusalem one and thirty yeeres.

1611 marginal note2.Kin. 22.1. &c.

2 Chronicles 34:3
¶ For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 34:3 · retained source text

¶ For in the eight yeare of his reigne, while he was yet young, hee beganne to seeke after the God of Dauid his father: and in the twelfth yeere hee beganne to purge Iudah and Ierusalem from the high places and the groues, and the carued images, and the molten images.

1611 marginal note1.Kin. 13.2.

2 Chronicles 34:8
¶ Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 34:8 · retained source text

¶ Now in the eighteenth yeere of his reigne, when hee had purged the land, and the house; he sent Shaphan the sonne of Azaliah, and Maasiah the gouernour of the citie, and Ioah the sonne of Ioahaz the recorder, to repaire the house of the LORD his God.

2 Chronicles 36:2
Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 36:2 · retained source text

Iehoahaz was twentie and three yeeres old, when hee began to reigne, and hee reigned three moneths in Ierusalem.

2 Chronicles 36:5
¶ 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.
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 36:5 · retained source text

¶ Iehoiakim was twentie and fiue yeres old when he began to reigne, and he reigned eleuen yeeres in Ierusalem: and hee did that which was euill in the sight of the LORD his God.

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