2 Chronicles 36:1

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

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

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2Jehoahaz + 36:2 Jehoahaz is written in HEB Joahaz , but refers to the same person. was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

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Cross References

2 Kings 23:31Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal; she was the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

1 Chronicles 3:15Josiah's sons were his firstborn Johanan, his second son Jehoiakim, his third son Zedekiah, and his fourth son Shallum.

2 Chronicles 33:25But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made Josiah, his son, king in his place.

Ezekiel 19:3She is the one who raised up one of her cubs to become a young lion, a lion who learned to tear apart his victims, and then he devoured men. 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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