2 Chronicles 36:1
Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.
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In Context
2Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months.
Cross References
2 Kings 23:31Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
1 Chronicles 3:15The sons of Josiah: Johanan was the firstborn, Jehoiakim the second, Zedekiah the third, and Shallum the fourth.
2 Chronicles 33:25But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.
Ezekiel 19:3She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear his 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 →