Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.
Parallel translations
- WEB Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s place 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.
- NKJV Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem.
- NASB Then the people of the land took Joahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in place of his father in Jerusalem.
- NLT Then the people of the land took Josiah’s son Jehoahaz and made him the next king in Jerusalem.
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The people make Josiah's son Jehoahaz king in his place. Judah's final, brief, and troubled succession of kings begins.
Overview
After Josiah's death, the people of the land install his son Jehoahaz as king. This popular choice opens the closing chapter of Judah's monarchy, a swift series of weak and disobedient rulers. The contrast with Josiah's long, godly reign signals the kingdom's accelerating decline toward exile.
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Cross-references · 5
- Jer 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,
- 2 Kgs 23:30–37From Megiddo his servants carried his body in a chariot, brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah, anointed him, and made him king in place of his father.
- 1 Chr 3:15The sons of Josiah: Johanan was the firstborn, Jehoiakim the second, Zedekiah the third, and Shallum the fourth.
- 2 Chr 26:1All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
- 2 Chr 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.
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