2 Chronicles 36:1

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

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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 had begun to reign, and he reigned for three months in Jerusalem.

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Cross References

2 Kings 23:31Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for three months in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.

1 Chronicles 3:15Now the sons of Josiah were these: the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.

2 Chronicles 33:25But the rest of the multitude of the people, having slain those who had struck down Amon, appointed his son, Josiah, as king in his place.

Ezekiel 19:3And she led away one of her little ones, and he became a lion. And he learned to seize prey and to consume men.

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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