2 Chronicles 36:2

Jehoahaz was twenty-three when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for three months.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

1The people of the land took Jehoahaz, son of Josiah, and made him king in Jerusalem in succession to his father.

3Then the king of Egypt removed him from the throne in Jerusalem and imposed a tax on Judah of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

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Cross References

Isaiah 3:4I will give them boys as their leaders who will rule over them in childish ways.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 36:2-11

The Destruction of Jerusalem. ( b. c. 588.) 1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem. 2 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. 3 And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. 4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho… Read the whole commentary →

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