This document is about Jehoahaz (King of Judah). For other homonyms, please refer to the Jehoahaz document.
[See Genealogy of the Kingdom of Judah]
Jehoahaz was the son of Josiah, king of Judah, and the 17th king of the Kingdom of Judah. He reigned for three months before being captured by Pharaoh Necho of Egypt, taken to Egypt, and dying there.
2 Kings 23:30His servants carried his body in a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Josiah’s son Jehoahaz and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.2 Kings 23:31Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.2 Kings 23:32And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.2 Kings 23:33Pharaoh Necho imprisoned him at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and he laid on the land a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.2 Kings 23:34And Pharaoh Necho made Josiah’s son Eliakim king in place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But Jehoahaz he took away, and he came to Egypt and died there.
In Jeremiah chapter 22, he is recorded as Shallum (son of Josiah).
Jeremiah 22:11For thus says the Lord concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went away from this place: