Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 36:2
Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
2. in Jerusalem ] His mother’s name is here omitted; cp. 2Ch 33:1; 2Ch 33:21 ; 2Ch 34:1. According to 2Ki 23:32 (cp. Eze 19:3-4) Jehoahaz “did evil.”
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
2. he reigned three months inJerusalemHis possession of sovereign power was of but verybrief duration; for Necho determined to follow up the advantage hehad gained in Judah; and, deeming it expedient to have a king of hisown nomination on the throne of that country, he deposed thepopularly elected monarch and placed his brother Eliakim or Jehoiakimon the throne, whom he anticipated to be a mere obsequious vassal.The course of events seems to have been this: on receivingintelligence after the battle of the accession of Jehoahaz to thethrone, and perhaps also in consequence of the complaint whichEliakim brought before him in regard to this matter, Necho set outwith a part of his forces to Jerusalem, while the remainder of histroops pursued their way at leisure towards Riblah, laid a tribute onthe country, raised Eliakim (Jehoiakim) as his vassal to the throne,and on his departure brought Jehoahaz captive with him to Riblah. Theold expositors mostly assumed that Necho, after the battle ofMegiddo, marched directly against Carchemish, and then on his returncame to Jerusalem. The improbability, indeed the impossibility, ofhis doing so appears from this: Carchemish was from four hundred tofive hundred miles from Megiddo, so that within “three months”an army could not possibly make its way thither, conquer the fencedcity of Carchemish, and then march back a still greater distance toJerusalem, and take that city [KEIL].
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
[See comments on 2Ch 36:1]
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(2) Jehoahaz was twenty and-three.So Kings, adding the mothers name as usual. (So the LXX. here.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
2Ch 36:2 Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
Ver. 2. Jehoahaz was twenty and three. ] 2Ki 23:31 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Jerusalem. The Septuagint adds here, probably owing to the Homoeoteleuton in the word Jerusalem; “Jerusalem, and his mother’s name was Amital, daughter of Jeremiah of Lobnah: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done: and Pharaohneckhao bound him in Deblatha, in the land of Aimath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem”.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Reciprocal: 2Ki 23:30 – the people Ecc 10:16 – when Isa 3:4 – children Eze 19:3 – it became
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
36:2 Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three {a} months in Jerusalem.
(a) Three months after the death of Josiah, Necho came to Jerusalem, and so the plagues began, which Huldah and the prophets forewarned would come on Jerusalem.