Study it in the app“His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own grave. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.”
His servantsעֲבָדָיוcarried him in a chariotוַיַּרְכִּבֻהוּdeadמֵתfrom Megiddoמִמְּגִדּוֹand brought himוַיְבִאֻהוּto Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלִַםand buried himוַיִּקְבְּרֻהוּin his own grave.בִּקְבֻרָתוֹAnd the peopleוַ עַםof the landהָאָרֶץtookיִּקַּחJehoahazאֶת יְהוֹאָחָזsonבֶּןof Josiahיֹאשִׁיָּהוּand anointed himוַיִּמְשְׁחוּ אֹתוֹand made him kingוַיַּמְלִיכוּ אֹתוֹin placeתַּחַתof his father.אָבִיו
servant
Someone who works for another, or a king's official.
Where else “avaday” appearsset on
To set someone on a mount.
Where else “yarkivu” appearsdie
To cease living; also, one who has ceased living.
Where else “met” appearsMegiddo
See it on the mapWhere else “megido” appearsbring
To bring something or someone.
Where else “yeviu” appearsJerusalem
See it on the mapWhere else “yerushalaim” appearsbury
Bury.
Where else “yikbru” appearsgrave
Grave, tomb; burial.
Where else “kevurat” appearscrowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appearstake
To grasp something in the hand to carry or use it.
Where else “yikach” appearsJehoahaz
Jehoahaz: a name meaning "YHWH has grasped" (holds by the hand). Borne by a son of Jehu, king of Israel (2 Kings 10:35; 13:1), by a son of Josiah, king of Judah (2 Kings 23:30), and it is another form of the name of Ahaziah son of Joram (2 Chronicles 21:17).
Where else “yehoachaz” appearsson
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “ben” appearsJosiah
Josiah: a name that, according to the lexicon, means "founded by Yah." He is the king of Judah announced by name in 1 Kings 13:2, who reigned about three hundred years later (2 Kings 22–23); a man in Zechariah 6:10 is also called this.
Where else “yoshiyahu” appearsanoint
To pour oil on someone to set them apart for God.
Where else “yimshchu” appearsmake king
To set someone up as king, proclaim him and give him the throne.
Where else “yamlichu” appearsfather
The man who begets a child and heads his household.
Where else “avi” appearsOther books that tell the same thing or quote these words.
The death of Josiah
2 Kings 23:28-30
28The rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 29In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went to meet him, and he put him to death at Megiddo when he saw him. 30His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own grave. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.
20After all this, when Josiah had prepared the house, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates; and Josiah went out to meet him. 21But he sent messengers to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, king of Judah? I am not coming against you today, but against the house with which I am at war; and Elohim has told me to hurry. Stop opposing Elohim, who is with me, so that he does not destroy you.” 22But Josiah did not turn his face away from him, but to fight against him he disguised himself, and did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of Elohim; and he came to fight in the valley of Megiddo. 23The archers shot at King Josiah, and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am badly wounded.” 24So his servants took him out of the chariot and put him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. 25Jeremiah chanted a dirge for Josiah; and all the male singers and the female singers have spoken of Josiah in their dirges to this day, and they made them a statute for Israel; and they are written in the Dirges. 26The rest of the acts of Josiah and his deeds of loyal love, according to what is written in the law of YHWH, 27and his acts, the first and the last, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
1Megiddo
Today: Tel Megiddo ruins, Israel
A city guarding an important pass into the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel.
Canaanite kings fought Israel there (Judg 5:19). Solomon fortified it (1 Kgs 9:15), and King Josiah died there (2 Kgs 23:29).
2Jerusalem
Today: Old City of Jerusalem
A city in the hills of Judea, about 22 miles (35 km) west of the Dead Sea and 35 miles (55 km) east of the Mediterranean.
David took it and made it his city (2 Sam 5:7); Solomon built the temple there (1 Kgs 8:1). Jesus was presented there, and the apostles' witness began from it (Luke 2:22; Acts 1:8).
29In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went to meet him, and he put him to death at Megiddo when he saw him.
30 · This verse (above)
31Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
