'Begun' in the Bible

Ahaziah had begun to reign over Judah in the eleventh year of the reign of Ahab's son Joram.

In those days hath Jehovah begun to cut off some in Israel, and Hazael smiteth them in all the border of Israel,

In those days hath Jehovah begun to send against Judah Rezin king of Amram and Pekah son of Remaliah.

Eighteen years after King Josiah had begun to reign, the king sent Azaliah's son Shaphan, grandson of Meshullam the scribe, to the LORD's Temple. He told him,