2 Chronicles 36:1
And the people of the land took Jehoahaz, son of Josiah,—and made him king instead of his father, in Jerusalem.
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2 Kings 23:31Twenty-three years old, was Jehoahaz when he began to reign, and, three months, reigned he 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 33:25But the people of the land smote all the conspirators against King Amon,—and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
Ezekiel 19:3And she reared up one of her whelps— A young lion, he became, And he learned to rend prey. Men, he devoured.
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 →