2 Chronicles 36:1
And the people of the land take Jehoahaz son of Josiah and cause him to reign instead of his father in Jerusalem.
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2 Kings 23:31Jehoahaz [is] a son of twenty-three years in his reigning, and he has reigned three months in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah,
1 Chronicles 3:15And sons of Josiah: the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
2 Chronicles 33:25and the people of the land strike all those conspiring against King Amon, and the people of the land cause his son Josiah to reign in his stead.
Ezekiel 19:3And she brings up one of her whelps, || He has been a young lion, || And he learns to tear prey, || He has devoured man.
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 →