Bible verse

2 Chronicles 36:1

Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.
2 Chronicles 36:1 · BSB

2 Chronicles 36:1 in context

The verses around it, from 2 Chronicles 36.

1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.

2 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months.

3 And the king of Egypt dethroned him in Jerusalem and imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

4 Then Neco king of Egypt made Eliakim brother of Jehoahaz king over Judah and Jerusalem, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Eliakim’s brother Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt.

5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

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2 Chronicles 36:1 in other translations

KJV

Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s stead in Jerusalem.

ASV

Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s stead in Jerusalem.

ERV

Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s stead in Jerusalem.

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