2 Kings 23:29-35

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29 ^aIn his days ^bPharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. And King Josiah went to meet him, and when Pharaoh Neco saw him he put him to death at ^cMegiddo. 30 ^aAnd his servants drove ¹his body in a chariot from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. ^bThen the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.

Jehoahaz’s Reign and Imprisonment

31 ^aJehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was ^bHamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 32 And he did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, ^aaccording to all that his fathers had done. 33 ^aAnd Pharaoh Neco imprisoned him at ^bRiblah in the land of ^cHamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and he imposed on the land a fine of one hundred ¹talents of silver and one talent of gold.

Jehoiakim Made King by Pharaoh

34 Then Pharaoh Neco made ^aEliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father and ^bchanged his name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz and ¹^cbrought him to Egypt, and he died there. 35 So Jehoiakim ^agave the silver and gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land in order to give the money at the ¹command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land, each according to his valuation, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.