2 Kings 23:30-33

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 23:25-30

Upon the reading of these verses we must say, Lord, though thy righteousness be as the great mountains?evident, conspicuous, and past dispute, yet thy judgments are a great deep, unfathomable and past finding out, Ps. 36:6. What shall we say to this? I. It is here owned that Josiah was one of the best kings that ever sat upon the throne of David, 2 Kgs. 23:25. As Hezekiah was a non-such for faith and dependence upon God in straits (2 Kgs. 18:5), so Josiah was a non-such for sincerity and zeal... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 23:31-37

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; the former we find here a prisoner and the latter a tributary to the king of Egypt, and both so in the very beginning of their reign. This king of Egypt having slain Josiah, though he had not had any design upon Judah, yet, being provoked by the opposition which Josiah gave him, now, it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 23:30

And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo ,.... They took him out of the chariot in which he was wounded, and put him into another, where he died of his wounds by the way; being mortally wounded, he is said to be dead, or a dead man, see 2 Chronicles 35:24 . and brought him to Jerusalem ; which, according to Bunting F2 Travels, &c.; p. 188. , was forty four miles from Megiddo: and buried him in his own sepulchre ; which either he had provided for himself... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 23:31

Jehoahaz was twenty three years old when he began to reign ,.... Who seems to be the same with Shallum, Jeremiah 22:11 . and he reigned three months in Jerusalem ; a short reign, being deposed by the king of Egypt, as after related: and his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah ; a city in the tribe of Judah, Joshua 10:29 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 23:32

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord ,.... Committed idolatry: according to all that his fathers had done ; his grand father and great grandfather, Amon and Manasseh; so soon after Josiah's death was the revolt to idolatry. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 23:33

And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath ,.... Places in Syria; Hamath was formerly a kingdom in Syria, and Riblah is said by Jerom F3 Comment. in Ezekiel. xlvii. fol. 261. C. to be Antioch of Syria, near to which was the fountain of Daphne; and in the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem on Numbers 34:11 . Daphne is put for Riblah; and Josephus F4 Antiqu. l. 17. c. 2. sect. 3. says Antioch was by Daphne of Syria; and in the Apocrypha:"Which when Onias... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 23:30

Dead from Megiddo - The word מת meth should here be considered as a participle, dying, for it is certain he was not dead: he was mortally wounded at Megiddo, was carried in a dying state to Jerusalem, and there he died and was buried. See 2 Chronicles 35:24 . Herodotus, lib. i., c. 17, 18, 25, and lib. ii. 159, appears to refer to the same war which is here mentioned. He says that Nechoh, in the sixth year of his reign, went to attack the king of Assyria at Magdolum, gained a... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 23:31

Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old - This was not the eldest son of Josiah, which is evident from this, that he was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; that he reigned but three months; that, being dethroned, his brother Eliakim was put in his place, who was then twenty-five years of age. Eliakim, therefore, was the eldest brother; but Jehoahaz was probably raised to the throne by the people, as being of a more active and martial spirit. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 23:33

Nechoh put him in bands - But what was the cause of his putting him in bands? It is conjectured, and not without reason, that Jehoahaz, otherwise called Shallum, raised an army, met Nechoh in his return from Carchemish, fought, was beaten, taken prisoner, put in chains; and taken into Egypt, where he died; 2 Kings 23:34 , and Jeremiah 22:11 , Jeremiah 22:12 . Riblah or Diblath, the place of this battle, was probably a town in Syria, in the land or district of Hamath. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 23:1-37

JOSIAH 'S RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT . HIS REFORMS AND DEATH . REIGN OF JEHOAHAZ . ACCESSION OF JEHOIAKIM . read more

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