Jehoahaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three [a]months in Jerusalem.

And the king of Egypt took him away at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an [b]hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

¶ And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim: and Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 36:2 For three months after the death of Josiah, came Necho to Jerusalem, and so the plagues began, which Huldah and the Prophetess forewarned should come upon Jerusalem.
  2. 2 Chronicles 36:3 To pay this as a yearly tribute.

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