2 Chronicles 36:2

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

2 Chronicles 36:2, King James Version

2 Chronicles 36:2 in other translations

BSB	Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months.
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.
YLT	A son of three and twenty years is Jehoahaz in his reigning, and three months he hath reigned in Jerusalem,
DARBY	Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
BBE	Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months.
Webster	Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

What does 2 Chronicles 36:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

2. he reigned three months in Jerusalem--His possession of sovereign power was of but very brief duration; for Necho determined to follow up the advantage he had gained in Judah; and, deeming it expedient to have a king of his own nomination on the throne of that country, he deposed the popularly elected monarch and placed his brother Eliakim or Jehoiakim on the throne, whom he anticipated to be a mere obsequious vassal. The course of events seems to have been this: on receiving intelligence after the battle of the accession of Jehoahaz to the throne, and perhaps also in consequence of the complaint which Eliakim brought before him in regard to this matter, Necho set out with a part of his forces to Jerusalem, while the remainder of his troops pursued their way at leisure towards Riblah, laid a tribute on the country, raised Eliakim (Jehoiakim) as his vassal to the throne, and on his departure brought Jehoahaz captive with him to Riblah. The old expositors mostly assumed that Necho, after the battle of Megiddo, marched directly against Carchemish, and then on his return came to Jerusalem. The improbability, indeed the impossibility, of his doing so appears from this: Carchemish was from four hundred to five hundred miles from Megiddo, so that within "three months" an army could not possibly make its way thither, conquer the fenced city of Carchemish, and then march back a still greater distance to Jerusalem, and take that city [Keil].

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Chronicles 36:1-21

The ruin of Judah and Jerusalem came on by degrees. The methods God takes to call back sinners by his word, by ministers, by conscience, by providences, are all instances of his compassion toward them, and his unwillingness that any should perish. See here what woful havoc sin makes, and, as we value the comfort and continuance of our earthly blessings, let us keep that worm from the root of them. They had many…

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2 Chronicles 36:2 in the original Hebrew

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בֶּן\־ben-[was] a son ofH1121

שָׁל֧וֹשׁsha.Lo.oshthreeH7969

וְעֶשְׂרִ֛יםve.'es.Rimand twentyH6242

שָׁנָ֖הsha.Nahyear[s]H8141

יוֹאָחָ֣זyo.'a.ChazJehoahazH3099

בְּמָלְכ֑וֹbe.ma.le.Khowhen became king heH4427

וּשְׁלֹשָׁ֣הu.she.lo.Shahand threeH7969

חֳדָשִׁ֔יםcho.da.ShimmonthsH2320

מָלַ֖ךְma.Lakhhe reignedH4427

בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם\׃bi.ru.sha.Limin JerusalemH3389

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Context

2 Chronicles 36:1
Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s stead in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:2
Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:3
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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2 Chronicles 36:2 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	De veinte y tres años era Joachâz cuando comenzó á reinar, y tres meses reinó en Jerusalem.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Joakhaz était âgé de 23 ans lorsqu’il commença de régner; et il régna trois mois à Jérusalem.
German Elberfelder 1871	Jahre war Joahas alt, als er König wurde, und er regierte drei Monate zu Jerusalem.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Viginti trium annorum erat Joachaz cum regnare cœpisset, et tribus mensibus regnavit in Jerusalem.