2 Chronicles 36:1
And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king over Jerusalem in the room of his father.
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In Context
2c And Pharaoh Neco bound him in Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem.
Cross References
2 Kings 23:31Twenty and three years old was Jehoahaz when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
1 Chronicles 3:15And the sons of Josiah; the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
2 Chronicles 33:25And the people of the land slew the men who had conspired against King Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
Ezekiel 19:3And one of her whelps sprang forth; he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured 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 →