SEV Biblia, Chapter 23:30
Y sus siervos lo pusieron en un carro, y lo trajeron muerto de Meguido a Jerusalén, y lo sepultaron en su sepulcro. Entonces el pueblo de la tierra tomó a Joacaz hijo de Josías, y lo ungieron y lo pusieron por rey en lugar de su padre.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 23:30
Verse 30. Dead from Megiddo] The word tm meth should here be considered as a participle, dying, for it is certain he was not dead: he was mortally wounded at Megiddo, was carried in a dying state to Jerusalem, and there he died and was buried. See 2 Chron. xxxv. 24. Herodotus, lib. i., c. 17, 18, 25, and lib. ii. 159, appears to refer to the same war which is here mentioned. He says that Nechoh, in the sixth year of his reign, went to attack the king of Assyria at Magdolum, gained a complete victory, and took Cadytis. Usher and others believe that Magdolum and Megiddo were the same place. The exact place of the battle seems to have been Hadadrimmon, in the valley of Megiddo, for there Zechariah tells us chap. xii. 11, was the great mourning for Josiah. Compare this with 2 Chron. xxxv. 24, 25.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 30. And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo , etc.] They took him out of the chariot in which he was wounded, and put him into another, where he died of his wounds by the way; being mortally wounded, he is said to be dead, or a dead man, (see 2 Chronicles 35:24) and brought him to Jerusalem ; which, according to Bunting f294 , was forty four miles from Megiddo: and buried him in his own sepulchre ; which either he had provided for himself in his lifetime, or which in common belonged to the kings of Judah, (see 2 Chronicles 35:24) and the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s stead ; though he was not the eldest son, Jehoiakim, who was afterwards placed in his room, being two years older, as appears from ( 2 Kings 23:31,36) and this is the reason, as the Jewish commentators in general agree, that he was anointed; which they say was never done to the son of a king, unless there was a competitor, or some objection to, or dispute about, the succession, as in the case of Solomon and others.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 25-30 - Upon reading these verses, we must say, Lord, though thy righteousnes be as the great mountains, evident, plainly to be seen, and pas dispute; yet thy judgments are a great deep, unfathomable, and pas finding out. The reforming king is cut off in the midst of his usefulness, in mercy to him, that he might not see the evil coming upo his kingdom: but in wrath to his people, for his death was an inlet to their desolations. (2Ki 23:31-37)
Original Hebrew
וירכבהו 7392 עבדיו 5650 מת 4191 ממגדו 4023 ויבאהו 935 ירושׁלם 3389 ויקברהו 6912 בקברתו 6900 ויקח 3947 עם 5971 הארץ 776 את 853 יהואחז 3059 בן 1121 יאשׁיהו 2977 וימשׁחו 4886 אתו 853 וימליכו 4427 אתו 853 תחת 8478 אביו׃ 1
