Jehoahaz[a] was 23 years old when he became king and reigned three months in Jerusalem. The king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and fined the land 7,500 pounds[b] of silver and 75 pounds[c] of gold.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 36:2 = Joahaz
  2. 2 Chronicles 36:3 Lit 100 talents
  3. 2 Chronicles 36:3 Lit one talent

Jehoahaz King of Judah(A)

Jehoahaz[a] was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. The king of Egypt dethroned him in Jerusalem and imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents[b] of silver and a talent[c] of gold.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 36:2 Hebrew Joahaz, a variant of Jehoahaz; also in verse 4
  2. 2 Chronicles 36:3 That is, about 3 3/4 tons or about 3.4 metric tons
  3. 2 Chronicles 36:3 That is, about 75 pounds or about 34 kilograms

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

And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

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