Chapter Book
Loading
Change Translation
Loading...
  • Recent Translations
  • All Translations

2 Kings 23:24-34

Share

Settings

24 Moreover, Josiah removed 1the mediums and the spiritists and the 2teraphim and 3the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, 4that he might confirm the words of the law which were written 5in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
25 Before him there was no king 6like him who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him.
26 However, the LORD did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath with which His anger burned against Judah, 7because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him.
27 The LORD said, "I will remove Judah also from My sight, 8as I have removed Israel. And 9I will cast off Jerusalem, this city which I have chosen, and the temple of which I said, 'My name shall be there.' "

Jehoahaz Succeeds Josiah

28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles * of the Kings of Judah?
29 10In his days 11Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. And King Josiah went to meet him, and when Pharaoh Neco saw him he killed him at 12Megiddo.
30 13His servants drove his body in a chariot from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. 14Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.
31 15Jehoahaz was twenty-three * years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was 16Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
32 He did evil in the sight of the LORD, 17according to all that his fathers had done.
33 18Pharaoh Neco imprisoned him at 19Riblah in the land of 20Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and he imposed on the land a fine of one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

Jehoiakim Made King by Pharaoh

34 Pharaoh Neco made 21Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and 22changed his name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz away and 23brought him to Egypt, and he died there.
Read Chapter Compare

2 Kings 23:24-34 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 23

This chapter treats of Josiah's reading the book of the law, and of him and the people renewing the covenant with God, 2Ki 23:1-3, and of his removing idols and idolatry in every shape, and witchcraft, out of the land, which he did in the sincerity of his heart, 2Ki 23:4-25, yet the wrath of God was still determined upon the land, 2Ki 23:26-28 and Josiah was taken away by an untimely death, 2Ki 23:29,30 and was succeeded by two sons of his, one after another, whose reigns were wicked, 2Ki 23:31-37.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 23

Footnotes 5

New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, California.  All rights reserved.