2 Chronicles 36:1
The people of the land took Jehoahaz, son of Josiah, and made him king in Jerusalem in succession to his father.
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2Jehoahaz was twenty-three when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for three months.
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2 Kings 23:31Jehoahaz was twenty-three when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for three months. His mother's name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah. She came from Libnah.
1 Chronicles 3:15The sons of Josiah: Johanan (firstborn), Jehoiakim (second), Zedekiah (third), Shallum (fourth).
2 Chronicles 33:25But the people of the land killed everyone who had plotted against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king.
Ezekiel 19:3She raised one of her cubs, and he grew up to be a young lion. Once he had learned how to tear up his prey, he started eating people.
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 →