2 Kings 23:30-34

30 ¹And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from ²Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. ³And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.

Jehoahaz's Reign and Captivity

31 ⁴Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was ⁵Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

32 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, ⁶according to all that his fathers had done.

33 And ⁷Pharaoh Neco put him in bonds at ⁸Riblah in the land of ⁹Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and laid on the land a tribute of a hundred talents^[a] of silver and a talent of gold.

34 And ¹⁰Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and ¹¹changed his name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz away, ¹²and he came to Egypt and died there.

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2 Kings 23:30-34 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 12

1. [2 Kings 9:28]
2. [See ver. 29 above]
3. For ver. 30-34, see 2 Chronicles 36:1-4
4. [1 Chronicles 3:15; Jeremiah 22:11]
5. 2 Kings 24:18
6. [2 Kings 24:9, 19]
7. [See ver. 29 above]
8. 2 Kings 25:6, 20, 21; Jeremiah 39:5, 6; Jeremiah 52:9, 10, 26, 27
9. See 1 Kings 8:65
10. [See ver. 29 above]
11. [2 Kings 24:17; Daniel 1:7]
12. Jeremiah 22:11, 12; [Ezekiel 19:3, 4]

Footnotes 1

[a]. A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms

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