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2 Kings 23:32 KJV
2 Kings · chapter 23 · verse 32
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.2 Kings 23:32 · King James Version
2 Kings 23:32 in context
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.
31Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
32And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
33And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
34And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- sightʻayinan eyeH5869 →
- evilraʻbad or evilH7451 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- doneʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
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Jerusalem saw not a good day after Josiah was laid in his grave, but one trouble came after another, till within twenty-two years it was quite destroyed. Of the reign of two of his sons here is a short account;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 31-37