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2 Chronicles 36:1 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 1. 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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Role in This Section
This verse opens the thought unit and establishes its first action or speech: “Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Egypt removes Jehoahaz and installs Jehoiakim.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 36:1–4
Read 2 Chronicles 36:1 with 36:1–4. The selected wording supplies one opening in the thought unit and establishes its first action or speech; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: The people enthrone Jehoahaz, Necho deposes him after three months, fines the land, renames and installs his brother Eliakim as Jehoiakim, and takes Jehoahaz to Egypt.
Why It Needs Context
2 Chronicles 36:1 depends on 36:1–4; isolating “Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his…” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Egypt removes Jehoahaz and installs Jehoiakim.”
Read 2 Chronicles 36:1–4 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 36:1–4 forms the complete movement “Egypt removes Jehoahaz and installs Jehoiakim”: The people enthrone Jehoahaz, Necho deposes him after three months, fines the land, renames and installs his brother Eliakim as Jehoiakim, and takes Jehoahaz to Egypt.
Verse 1. 1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s stead in Jerusalem.
Verse 2. 2 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
Verse 3. 3 And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
Verse 4. 4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
Continue in Context
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Biblical text
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Exact location: 2 Chronicles 36:1–4, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
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