2 Chronicles 36:1

Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.

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Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s stead in Jerusalem.

In Context

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

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Cross References

2 Kings 23:31Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for three months; his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

1 Chronicles 3:15And the sons of Josiah: the oldest Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.

2 Chronicles 33:25But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against King Amon, and made his son Josiah king in his place.

Ezekiel 19:3And one of her little ones came to growth under her care, and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 36:1

We have here, I. A short but sad account of the utter ruin of Judah and Jerusalem within a few years after Josiah's death. 1. The history of it in the unhappy reigns of Jehoahaz for three months ( ver. 1-4 ), Jehoiakim ( ver. 5-8 ) for eleven years, Jehoiach in three months ( ver. 9, 10 ), and Zedekiah eleven years, ver. 11 . Additions were made to the national guilt, and advances towards the national destruction, in each of those reigns. The destruction was, at length, completed in the slaughter of multitudes (… Read the whole commentary →

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