After Josiah Ben Ammon died, the Kingdom of Judah passed to his sons. Hulda had predicted that the good king would die a peaceful death. He didn’t. He died from wounds he sustained in a battle at Megiddo with Egypt’s Neco. The writers of Kings and Chronicles inform us that his son Jehoahaz takes the throne after Josiah dies and that he reigns for only three months. But, in our only record of the sons of Josiah (I Chronicles 3:15), we have no mention of Jehoahaz, and Jeremiah’s book tells us that the word of the LORD came to him during Josiah’s reign, the days of Jehoiakim, and Zedekiah. Where is Jehoahaz? Who is Jehoahaz? Does Jeremiah mention anything about this three-month window of time? In this class, we take a close look at the transition from Josiah to the reign of his sons.
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