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2 Chronicles 36:1

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

2 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

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.

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BSB
Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.
KJV
Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s stead in Jerusalem.
WEB
Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s place 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.
DARBY
And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead, in Jerusalem.
BLB
And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah, and they made him king in place of his father in Jerusalem.
ÅB
Landets folk tok og gjorde Joakas, Josias' sønn, til konge i hans fars sted i Jerusalem.
OTB
Folket i landet valgte Joakas, sønn av Josjia, og innsatte ham som konge i stedet for hans far i Jerusalem.
B1930
Landets folk tok og gjorde Joakas, Josias' sønn, til konge i hans fars sted i Jerusalem.

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  • Jeremiah 22:11

    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:

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  • 2 Chronicles 26:1

    Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.

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  • 1 Chronicles 3:15

    And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.

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  • 2 Chronicles 33:25

    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.

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  • 2 Kings 23:30–37

    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.

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