2 Chronicles 36:2
in 2 Chronicles 36Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months.
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ASV
Joahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
KJV
Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 36
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
The improbability, indeed the impossibility, of his doing so appears from this: Carchemish was from four hundred to five hundred miles from Megiddo, so that within "three months" an army could not possibly make its way thither, conquer the fenced city of Carchemish, and then march back a still greater distance to Jerusalem, and take that city [KEIL].
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”.
This site's exposition
he reigned in Jerusalem three months
Jehoahaz was two years younger than his brother Eliakim, so the people passed over the elder son. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, following Keil, argue from the four to five hundred miles that Necho could not have marched within three months. Matthew Henry notes from Kings that he did evil.
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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Had he trodden in the steps of his father's piety he might have reigned long and prospered; but we are told in the Kings that he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and therefore his triumphing was short and his joy but for a moment. Jehoiakim was set up by the king of Egypt, an old enemy to their land, gave what king he pleased to the kingdom and what name he pleased to the king!
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What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
and made him king instead of his father although Jehoiakim his brother was twenty-one months his senior.
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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
10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בֶּן־ | ben- | [was] a son of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| שָׁל֧וֹשׁ | shaloosh | three | H7969 → | 432 times |
| וְעֶשְׂרִ֛ים | veesrim | and twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
| שָׁנָ֖ה | shanah | year[s] | H8141 → | 877 times |
| יוֹאָחָ֣ז | yoachaz | Jehoahaz | H3099 → | 4 times |
| בְּמָלְכ֑וֹ | bemalekho | when became king he | H4427 → | 348 times |
| וּשְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה | usheloshah | and three | H7969 → | 432 times |
| חֳדָשִׁ֔ים | chodashim | months | H2320 → | 284 times |
| מָלַ֖ךְ | malakh | he reigned | H4427 → | 348 times |
| בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ | birushalim | in Jerusalem | H3389 → | 643 times |
בֶּן־[was] a son of
ben-H1121 →4930 times
שָׁל֧וֹשׁthree
shalooshH7969 →432 times
וְעֶשְׂרִ֛יםand twenty
veesrimH6242 →315 times
שָׁנָ֖הyear[s]
shanahH8141 →877 times
יוֹאָחָ֣זJehoahaz
yoachazH3099 →4 times
בְּמָלְכ֑וֹwhen became king he
bemalekhoH4427 →348 times
וּשְׁלֹשָׁ֣הand three
usheloshahH7969 →432 times
חֳדָשִׁ֔יםmonths
chodashimH2320 →284 times
מָלַ֖ךְhe reigned
malakhH4427 →348 times
בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃in Jerusalem
birushalimH3389 →643 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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This page draws on 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 Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.