2 Chronicles 36:2

Jehoahaz + 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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In The King James Version

Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

In Context

1Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's place in Jerusalem.

3The king of Egypt removed him at Jerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.

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Cross References

Isaiah 3:4“I will place mere youths as their leaders, and the young will rule over them. 1

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 36:2-11

The Destruction of Jerusalem. ( b. c. 588.) 1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem. 2 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. 3 And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. 4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho… Read the whole commentary →

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