2 Chronicles 36:1

Then the people of the land took Joachaz the son of Josias, and made him king instead of his father in Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

2Joachaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

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Cross References

2 Kings 23:31Joachaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Amital, the daughter of Jeremias of Lobna.

1 Chronicles 3:15And the sons of Josias were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Joakim, the third Sedecias, the fourth Sellum.

2 Chronicles 33:25But the rest of the multitude of the people slew them that had killed Amen, and made Josias his son king in his stead.

Ezekiel 19:3And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour 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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