He was in the place, or stead, of the sovereign.
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth.
Yes, my lord. She quit and appointed Gabriel in her stead.
He appointed in his stead first his brother Mofaddal b.
On the defeat of Josiah at Megiddo his younger brother Jehoahaz (or Shallum) was chosen by the Judaeans, but the Egyptian conquerer Necho summoned him to his headquarters at Riblah (south of Hamath on the Orontes) and removed him to Egypt, appointing in his stead Eliakim, whose name ("El[God] raiseth up") was changed to its better-known synonym, Jehoiakim.