What does 2 Chronicles 36:1 mean?

2 Chronicles 36:1 highlights themes such as faith and obedience when read in context.

How should I apply 2 Chronicles 36:1 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.

1Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.

2Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

3And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

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