2 Chronicles 36:1

And the people of the land take Jehoahaz son of Josiah, and cause him to reign instead of his father in Jerusalem.

Young's Literal Translation

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

2A son of three and twenty years [is] Jehoahaz in his reigning, and three months he hath reigned in Jerusalem,

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Cross References

2 Kings 23:31A son of twenty and three years [is] Jehoahaz in his reigning, and three months he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah,

1 Chronicles 3:15And sons of Josiah: the first-born Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.

2 Chronicles 33:25and the people of the land smite all those conspiring against king Amon, and the people of the land cause Josiah his son to reign in his stead.

Ezekiel 19:3And she bringeth up one of her whelps, A young lion it hath been, And it learneth to tear prey, man it hath 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 →

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