Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
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Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
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Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
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Joahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain For three months after the death of Josiah, came…
For three months after the death of Josiah, came Necho to Jerusalem, and so the plagues began, which Huldah and the Prophetess forewarned should come upon Jerusalem.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 36:2 Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years old…
2Ch 36:2 Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
Ver. 2. Jehoahaz was twenty and three.] 2Ki 23:31.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain he reigned three months in Jerusalem--His possession of sovereign…
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].
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 2. in Jerusalem] His mother’s name is here omitted;…
2. in Jerusalem] His mother’s name is here omitted; cp. 2Ch_33:1; 2Ch_33:21; 2Ch_34:1. According to 2Ki_23:32 (cp. Eze_19:3-4) Jehoahaz “did evil.”
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (2) Jehoahaz was twenty and-three.—So Kings, adding the mother’s…
(2) Jehoahaz was twenty and-three.—So Kings, adding the mother’s name as usual. (So the LXX. here.)
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 36:2 Jehoahaz’s reign of three months was in 609…
36:2 Jehoahaz’s reign of three months was in 609 BC.
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