2 Chronicles 36:2 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months.

English Standard Version
Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

New American Standard Bible
Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

King James Bible
Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Jehoahaz was 23 years old when he became king and reigned three months in Jerusalem.

International Standard Version
Jehoahaz was 23 years old when he became king, and he reigned for three months in Jerusalem,

American Standard Version
Joahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Joachaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

Darby Bible Translation
Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

Young's Literal Translation
A son of three and twenty years is Jehoahaz in his reigning, and three months he hath reigned in Jerusalem,

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

36:1-21 The ruin of Judah and Jerusalem came on by degrees. The methods God takes to call back sinners by his word, by ministers, by conscience, by providences, are all instances of his compassion toward them, and his unwillingness that any should perish. See here what woful havoc sin makes, and, as we value the comfort and continuance of our earthly blessings, let us keep that worm from the root of them. They had many times ploughed and sowed their land in the seventh year, when it should have rested, and now it lay unploughed and unsown for ten times seven years. God will be no loser in his glory at last, by the disobedience of men. If they refused to let the land rest, God would make it rest. What place, O God, shall thy justice spare, if Jerusalem has perished? If that delight of thine were cut off for wickedness, let us not be high-minded, but fear.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

2. he reigned three months in Jerusalem—His possession of sovereign power was of but very brief duration; for Necho determined to follow up the advantage he had gained in Judah; and, deeming it expedient to have a king of his own nomination on the throne of that country, he deposed the popularly elected monarch and placed his brother Eliakim or Jehoiakim on the throne, whom he anticipated to be a mere obsequious vassal. The course of events seems to have been this: on receiving intelligence after the battle of the accession of Jehoahaz to the throne, and perhaps also in consequence of the complaint which Eliakim brought before him in regard to this matter, Necho set out with a part of his forces to Jerusalem, while the remainder of his troops pursued their way at leisure towards Riblah, laid a tribute on the country, raised Eliakim (Jehoiakim) as his vassal to the throne, and on his departure brought Jehoahaz captive with him to Riblah. The old expositors mostly assumed that Necho, after the battle of Megiddo, marched directly against Carchemish, and then on his return came to Jerusalem. 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].