2 Kings 23:31

Jehoahaz Reigns in Judah

31 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. The name of his mother [was] Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.

2 Kings 23:31 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 23:31

Jehoahaz was twenty three years old when he began to reign,
&c.] Who seems to be the same with Shallum, ( Jeremiah 22:11 )

and he reigned three months in Jerusalem;
a short reign, being deposed by the king of Egypt, as after related:

and his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah;
a city in the tribe of Judah, ( Joshua 10:29 ) ( 15:42 ) .

2 Kings 23:31 In-Context

29 In his days, Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, went up against the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King Josiah went to meet him, and he killed him at Megiddo as soon as he saw him.

30 So his servants drove him dead in a chariot from Megiddo, and they brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his tomb. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.

31 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. The name of his mother [was] Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.

32 He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh according to all his ancestors had done.

33 Then Pharaoh Neco confined him at Riblah in the land of Hamath, from reigning in Jerusalem, and imposed a levy on the land of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.