2 Chronicles 36:1

_THEN THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND TOOK JEHOAHAZ THE SON OF JOSIAH, AND MADE HIM KING IN HIS FATHER'S STEAD IN JERUSALEM._ The people of the land took Jehoahaz. Immediately after Josiah's overthrow and death, the people raised to the throne Shallum (1 Chronicles 3:15), afterward called Jehoahaz, in preference to his older brother Eliakim, from whom they expected little good. Jehoahaz is said (2 Kings 23:30) to have received at Jerusalem the royal anointing-a ceremony not usually deemed necessary in circumstances of regular and undisputed succession. But in the case of Jehoahaz, it seems to have been resorted to in order to impart greater validity to the act of popular election, and, it may be, to render it less likely to be disturbed by Necho, who, like all Egyptians would associate

1-21 The ruin of Judah and Jerusalem came on by degrees. The methods God takes to call back sinners by his word, by ministers, by conscience, by providences, are all instances of his compassion toward them, and his unwillingness that any should perish. See here what woful havoc sin makes, and, as we value the comfort and continuance of our earthly blessings, let us keep that worm from the root of them. They had many times ploughed and sowed their land in the seventh year, when it should have rested, and now it lay unploughed and unsown for ten times seven years. God will be no loser in his glory at last, by the disobedience of men. If they refused to let the land rest, God would make it rest. What place, O God, shall thy justice spare, if Jerusalem has perished? If that delight of thine were cut off for wickedness, let us not be high-minded, but fear....

CHAPTER XXXVI _Jehoahaz made king on the death of his father Josiah, and_ _reigns only_ three _months_, 1, 2. _He is dethroned by the king of Egypt, and Jehoiakim his brother_ _made king in his stead, who reigns wickedly_ eleven _years, and_ _is dethroned and led captive to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar_, 3-8. _Jehoiachin is made king in his stead, and reigns wickedly_ three _months and_ ten _days, and is also led captive to Babylon_, 9, 10. _Zedekiah begins to reign, and reigns wickedly_ eleven _years_, 11, 12. He r

The narrative runs parallel with 2 Kings (marginal reference) as far as 2 Chronicles 36:13. The writer then emits the events following, and substitutes a sketch in which the moral and didactic element preponderates over the historical....

EXPOSITION One short chapter now brings to a conclusion the work, in so many aspects remarkable, called 'The Chronicles.' And thirteen verses sum the contents of the four last pre-Captivity kings of the line of Judah. The words of Keil, in opening this last chapter in his commentary, are not unworthy of note. He says, "As the kingdom of Judah after Josiah's death advanced with swift steps to its destruction by the Chaldeans, so the author of the Chronicle goes quickly over the reigns of the last kings of Judah, who by their godless con-duet hastened the ruin of the kingdom. As to the four kings remaining, who reigned between Josiah's death and the destruction of Jerusalem, he gives, besides their ages at their respective accessions, only a short characterization of their conduct towards God, and a statement of the main events which, step by step, brought about the ruin of the king and th...

Ver. 1-13. THEN THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND TOOK JEHOAHAZ THE SON OF JOSIAH,.... Of whose reign, and of the three following, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah, and the account of them, from hence to the end of 2 Chronicles 36:13, what needs explanation or reconciliation, 2 Kings 23:31 2 Kings 23:32 2 Kings 23:33 2 Kings 23:34 2 Kings 23:35 2 Kings 23:36

9. THE FINAL DECLINE AND APOSTASY CHAPTER 36:1-14 _ 1. Jehoahaz's reign (2 Chronicles 36:1)_ 2. Jehoiachin's brief reign (2 Chronicles 36:8) 3. Zedekiah (2 Chronicles 36:11) As the complete record of these three final rulers is given in the second book of Kings, the annotations are made there. Nothing needs to be added. It was the final plunge before the awful judgment overtook Jerusalem and Judah. And there will be a final plunge into apostasy in connection with the professing Church, before the predicted judgment with the coming of our blessed Lord will end this present evil age and usher in His glorious kingdom....

THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND. the commonalty. Compare 2Ch 33:35. Not lawfully, for Jehoahaz was not the eldest son....

2 Chronicles 36:1-4 (1Es 1:34-38; 2 Kings 23:31-34). The Reign of Jehoahaz 1. _the people of the land took_ Cp. 2 Chronicles 26:1; 2 Chronicles 33:25. _Jehoahaz_ Called "Shallum" in 1 Chronicles 3:15; Jeremiah 22:11. He was younger than Jehoiakim; 2 Chronicles 36:5....

18. THE REIGN OF JEHOAHAZ (2 Chronicles 36:1-3) TEXT 2 Chronicles 36:1. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem. 2. Joahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. 3. And the king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and fined the land a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. PARAPHRASE 2 Chronicles 36:1. Josiah's son Jehoahaz was selected as the new king. 2. He was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, but lasted only three months. 3. Then he was deposed by the king of Egypt, who demanded an annual tribute from Juda