2 Chronicles 36:2
1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.
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.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months.
- KJV
- Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
- WEB
- Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
- ASV
- Joahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
- DARBY
- Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
- BLB
- Joahaz [was] a son of three and twenty years in his reigning, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months.
- ÅB
- Joakas var tre og tyve år gammel da han ble konge, og han regjerte tre måneder i Jerusalem.
- OTB
- Joakas var tjue-tre år gammel da han ble konge, og han regjerte i tre måneder i Jerusalem.
- B1930
- Joakas var tre og tyve år gammel da han blev konge, og han regjerte tre måneder i Jerusalem.