1Then 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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For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more:
And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead. …
But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)The destruction of Judah and Jerusalem is here coming on by degrees. God so ordered it to show that he has no pleasure in the ruin of sinners, but had rather they would turn and live, and therefore gives them both time and inducement to repent and waits to be gracious. The history of these reigns was more largely recorded in the last three chapters of the second of Kings . 1. Jehoahaz was set up b…
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