2 KINGS 23:30 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And 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.”
His servants carried him dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. The people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and anointed him, and made him king in place of his father — Josiah's body is returned to Jerusalem for royal burial, yet his death marks the end of the reforming era. His son Jehoahaz is crowned by 'the people of the land' (עַם־הָאָרֶץ, *am ha-aretz*), continuing the pattern of popular succession determination. Yet Jehoahaz will prove unable to maintain Josiah's religious achievements.
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