Age and death — the summary — 'He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem' (בן שׁלשים ושׁתיים שׁנה בממלכו ושׁמונה שׁנים מלך בירושׁלם). The death notice repeats the chronological information from v. 5, bracketing the reign with the same temporal markers. The eight-year reign, while substantive in political terms, becomes in retrospect a reign of judgment and decline. The Chronicler's repetition of the age and reign length emphasizes the structural integration of the death notice with the earlier accession narrative.

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