30And 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.
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And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.
Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem. …
His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
And 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.
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-30)Upon the reading of these verses we must say, Lord, though thy righteousness be as the great mountains —evident, conspicuous, and past dispute, yet thy judgments are a great deep , unfathomable and past finding out, Ps. 36:6. What shall we say to this? I. It is here owned that Josiah was one of the best kings that ever sat upon the throne of David, 2 Kgs. 23:25. As Hezekiah was a non-such for fait…
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