2 Kings 23:28-33

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 1In his days 2Pharaoh 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 3Megiddo.
30 4His servants drove his body in a chariot from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. 5Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.
31 6Jehoahaz was twenty-three * years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was 7Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
32 He did evil in the sight of the LORD, 8according to all that his fathers had done.
33 9Pharaoh Neco imprisoned him at 10Riblah in the land of 11Hamath, 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.

2 Kings 23:28-33 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.

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Footnotes 1

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