Then the king of Egypt made [a]Jehoahaz’s brother Eliakim king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took [b]Jehoahaz his brother and carried him off to Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 36:4 Lit. his
  2. 2 Chronicles 36:4 MT Joahaz

10 Weep not for (A)the dead, nor bemoan him;
Weep bitterly for him (B)who goes away,
For he shall return no more,
Nor see his native country.

Message to the Sons of Josiah

11 For thus says the Lord concerning (C)Shallum[a] the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, (D)who went from this place: “He shall not return here anymore, 12 but he shall die in the place where they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 22:11 Or Jehoahaz

She brought up one of her cubs,
And (A)he became a young lion;
He learned to catch prey,
And he devoured men.
The nations also heard of him;
He was trapped in their pit,
And they brought him with chains to the land of (B)Egypt.

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15 The sons of Josiah were Johanan the firstborn, the second [a]Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, and the fourth [b]Shallum.

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34 Then (A)Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and (B)changed his name to (C)Jehoiakim. And Pharaoh took Jehoahaz (D)and went to Egypt, and [a]he died there.

Jehoiakim Reigns in Judah(E)

35 So Jehoiakim gave (F)the silver and gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give money according to the command of Pharaoh; he exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land, from every one according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Necho.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 23:34 Jehoahaz

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