2 Chronicles 36:3

2Ch 36:3 And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

Ver. 3. Put him down.] And, as some think, afterwards put him to death in Egypt. Jehoahaz was but a younger brother, as is elsewhere noted, yet he would needs reign, and was soon after dethroned. He portrayed the ambitious man rightly, that pictured him snatching at a crown, and falling, with this motto, Sic mea fata sequor. See 2Ki 23:33.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

To pay this as a yearly tribute.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

an hundred talents of silver--£3418 15s.

and a talent of gold--£5475; total amount of tribute, £8893 15s.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Verse 3. The king of Egypt put him down] He now considered Judah to be conquered, and tributary to him and because the people had set up Jehoahaz without his consent, he dethroned him, and put his brother in his place, perhaps for no other reason but to show his supremacy. For other particulars, see the notes on 2Kg 23:31-35.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

(3) And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem.—Rather, removed him. 3 Esdr. 1:33 adds “from reigning,” which is almost demanded by the context. The LXX. follows the reading of 2Ki_23:33 : “And Pharaoh-necho bound him in Riblah, in the land of Hamath, from reigning (i.e., so that he reigned not) in Jerusalem “; but the Syriac and Vulg. support the existing Hebrew text. The LXX. begins the verse thus: “And he did the evil before the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done; “and adds, after the clause about the fine, “and the king took him away to Egypt.”

Condemned the land in.—Fined the land.—So Kings: “laid a fine upon the land.”

Riblah was in Syria, on the river Orontes. Necho may have ordered or enticed Jehoahaz to meet him there.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

3. put him down at Jerusalem] R.V. deposed him at Jerusalem. The clause answers to 2Ki_23:33, “put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem.” Perhaps we should read the same words in Chron. The Heb. words for “deposed” and “put in bands” are liable to be easily confused.

condemned] R.V. amerced. For “amerce” in the sense of “fine,” cp. Deu_22:19; and for “condemn” in the same sense see Amo_2:8 (A.V., “fined” R.V.).

an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold] The land was poorer than in the days in which Sennacherib had imposed a fine on Hezekiah of “three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold” (2Ki_18:14).

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Him. Joachaz had attempted to defend himself, and had been conducted prisoner to Reblatha, 4 K. xxiii. 33., and Ezechiel xix. 4. He was now deposed in from, and a tribute laid upon the people. C.

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Put him down; Hebrew, Whreysiyw i.e. deposed him (Revised Version). At Jerusalem. In something more than three months Pharaoh Necho seems to have been returning, and in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem. The parallel (2Ki_23:31) tells us that he put Jahoahaz "in bands" at "Riblath in the land of Hamath". (Eze_19:4) And condemned the land; i.e. inflicted a fine on the land; Hebrew, vn.

From this time nothing further is heard of Jehoahaz or Shallum.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The king of Egypt removed him at Jerusalem

The idiom "removed him at Jerusalem" means that he caused him no longer to be king in Jerusalem. AT: "The king of Egypt removed him from being king in Jerusalem" (See: Idiom)

fined the land

Here the word "land" represents the people who lived there. AT: "fined the people of the land" (See: Metonymy)

one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold

You may convert this to a modern measure. A talent was about 33 kilograms. AT: "thirty-three hundred kilograms of silver and thirty-three kilograms of gold" or "about 3,300 kilograms of silver and 33 kilograms of gold" (See: Biblical Money and Numbers)

Eliakim ... Jehoahaz

These are the names of men. (See: How to Translate Names)

translationWords

king

Egypt

silver

gold

kingdom of Judah

Jehoiakim

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And the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem This is explained thoroughly in II Kings (23: 33): “And Pharaoh-Neco imprisoned him in Riblah in the land of Hamath.”

in Jerusalem from reigning in Jerusalem.

and he imposed a fine upon the land to give taxes. An example is (Deut. 22: 19): “And they shall fine him one hundred pieces of silver.”

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.