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2 Chronicles 36:1

in 2 Chronicles 36

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

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

This verse in 2 Chronicles 36

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
The narrative runs parallel with 2 Kings (marginal reference) as far as 2Ch 36:13. The writer then emits the events following, and substitutes a sketch in which the moral and didactic element preponderates over the historical.

This site's exposition

made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father

on 2 Chronicles 36:1-3

The people of the land make Jehoahaz king, and Chronicles gives his reign three verses where 2 Kings 23 to 24 gives a fuller record. After three months the king of Egypt dethrones him and imposes “a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold”.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah,.... Of whose reign, and of the three following, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah, and the account of them, from hence to the end of 2Ch 36:13, what needs explanation or reconciliation; see Gill on 2Ki 23:31, 2Ki 23:32, 2Ki 23:33, 2Ki 23:34, 2Ki 23:35, 2Ki 23:36, 2Ki 23:37, 2Ki 24:5, 2Ki 24:6, 2Ki 24:8, 2Ki 24:10, 2Ki 24:17, 2Ki 24:18.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

He was the youngest son of Josiah, but the popular favorite, probably on account of his martial spirit (Eze 19:3) and determined opposition to the aggressive views of Egypt. At his accession the land was free from idolatry; but this prince, instead of following the footsteps of his excellent father, adopted the criminal policy of his apostatizing predecessors.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Took Jehoahaz - It seems that after Necho had discomfited Josiah, he proceeded immediately against Charchemish, and in the interim, Josiah dying of his wounds, the people made his son king.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

and made him king instead of his father although Jehoiakim his brother was twenty-one months his senior.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Chronicles 36:1:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּקְחוּ֙and they took

    vaiyikchuH3947 →966 times

  • עַם־[the] people of

    ʾam-H5971 →1873 times

  • הָאָ֔רֶץthe land

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • יְהוֹאָחָ֖זJehoahaz

    yehoachazH3059 →20 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • יֹאשִׁיָּ֑הוּJosiah

    yoshiyahuH2977 →53 times

  • וַיַּמְלִיכֻ֥הוּand they made king him

    vaiyamlikhuhuH4427 →348 times

  • תַֽחַת־in place of

    tachat-H8478 →505 times

  • אָבִ֖יוfather his

    ʾavivH1 →1212 times

  • בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃in Jerusalem

    birushalimH3389 →643 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 22:11

    For this is what the LORD says concerning Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, who succeeded his father Josiah but has gone forth from this place: “He will never return,

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 23:34

      Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, where he…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Chronicles 3:15

      The sons of Josiah: Johanan was the firstborn, Jehoiakim the second, Zedekiah the third, and Shallum the fourth.

    • 2 Chronicles 36:1–4

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

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 26:1

    All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

    it leads to

    • Matthew 1:8–9

      Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah.

    • 2 Chronicles 22:1

      Then the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, the youngest son of Jehoram, king in his place, since the raiders who had come into the camp with the Arabs had killed all the older sons.…

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 33:25

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

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 34:1

      Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years.

    • 2 Chronicles 26:1

      All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

    • Genesis 9:5–6

      And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Chronicles

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).