2 Chronicles 36:1

Then the Am Ha'Aretz took Yehoachaz ben Yoshiyahu, and made him melech in the place of Aviv in Yerushalayim.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s stead in Jerusalem.

In Context

2Yehoachaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Yerushalayim.

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Cross References

2 Kings 23:31Yehoachaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned shloshah chodashim in Yerushalayim. And shem immo was Chamutal Bat Yirmeyahu of Livnah.

1 Chronicles 3:15And the Bnei Yoshiyahu were, the bechor Yochanan, the second Y'hoyakim, the third Tzidkiyahu, the fourth Shallum.

2 Chronicles 33:25But the am ha'aretz slaughtered all them that had made the kesher against HaMelech Amon; and the am ha'aretz made Yoshiyahu (Josiah) bno Melech in his place.

Ezekiel 19:3And she brought up one of her cubs; 1 it became a strong lion, 1 and it learned to tear teref (prey); 1 it devoured adam. 1

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 →

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