2 Chronicles 36:1
in 2 Chronicles 36Then 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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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.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 36
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
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 & Brown1802–1910
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.
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.
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 wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּקְחוּ֙ | vaiyikchu | and they took | H3947 → | 966 times |
| עַם־ | ʾam- | [the] people of | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| הָאָ֔רֶץ | haaretz | the land | H776 → | 2504 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| יְהוֹאָחָ֖ז | yehoachaz | Jehoahaz | H3059 → | 20 times |
| בֶּן־ | ben- | [the] son of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יֹאשִׁיָּ֑הוּ | yoshiyahu | Josiah | H2977 → | 53 times |
| וַיַּמְלִיכֻ֥הוּ | vaiyamlikhuhu | and they made king him | H4427 → | 348 times |
| תַֽחַת־ | tachat- | in place of | H8478 → | 505 times |
| אָבִ֖יו | ʾaviv | father his | H1 → | 1212 times |
| בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ | birushalim | in Jerusalem | H3389 → | 643 times |
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 stopsEach 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 22:11For 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.
- 2 Kings 23:34
Through
2 Chronicles 26:1All 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.…
- Matthew 1:8–9
Through
2 Chronicles 33:25But 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:
- 2 Chronicles 34:1
Where this verse is studied
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Who and where
2 names in this verse with a page on the site.
- PersonLate monarchyJosiahThe boy-king who found the book of the law in the temple, tore his clothes, and led Judah's last great reformation and Passover be…
- PlaceJerusalemJerusalemThe city David took from the Jebusites and made his capital, where Solomon built the temple, where Christ was crucified and rose,…
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).
