Now thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley, until that entire generation of the men of war had died from within the camp, just as the Lord had sworn to them.

So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the Israelites served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.

He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys; and he judged Israel for eight years.

He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned for eight years in Jerusalem.

The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.

Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.

Jehoram was thirty-two years of age when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years; and he departed with no one’s regret (sorrow). They buried him in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

There was a certain man there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years and was paralyzed.

‘Then on the sixth day [of the Feast of Booths]: eight bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs one year old without blemish;