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.”

"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 36:1
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What does 2 Chronicles 36:1 mean?

2 Chronicles 36:1 (KJV) states, "Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem." This verse is one of the last in the book of 2 Chronicles and marks the beginning of a tumultuous time in the history of Israel…

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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."
1 Chronicles 2:36 - "And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad,"
2 Chronicles 36:22
"And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad," - 1 Chronicles 2:36
1 Chronicles 11:36 - "Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,"
1 Chronicles 1:36 - "The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek."
1 Chronicles 4:36 - "And Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah,"
1 Chronicles 7:36 - "The sons of Zophah; Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,"
2 Chronicles 36:2 - "Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem."
1 Chronicles 6:36 - "The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,"
1 Chronicles 12:36 - "And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand."
1 Chronicles 9:36 - "And his firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab,"
2 Chronicles 29:36 - "And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly."
2 Chronicles 20:36 - "And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Ezion-geber."
2 Chronicles 36:7 - "Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon."
2 Kings 15:36 - "¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?"
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."
2 Chronicles 36:11 - "¶ Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 36:6 - "Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon."
"Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite," - 1 Chronicles 11:36
1 Chronicles 8:36 - "And Ahaz begat Jehoadah; and Jehoadah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza,"
1 Chronicles 16:36 - "Blessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD."
2 Chronicles 36:12 - "And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 36:18 - "And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon."
2 Chronicles 36:19 - "And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof."
2 Chronicles 36:16 - "But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy."
2 Chronicles 36:20 - "And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:"
"The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek." - 1 Chronicles 1:36
"And Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah," - 1 Chronicles 4:36