1
Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.
2
Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months.
3
Then the king of Egypt took the kingdom from him in Jerusalem, and put on the land a tax of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
4
And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, changing his name to Jehoiakim. And Neco took his brother Jehoahaz away to Egypt.
5
Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God.
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