Les trois règnes funestes

36 Le peuple du pays prit Yoahaz, fils de Josias, et l’établit roi pour succéder à son père sur le trône à Jérusalem.

(2 R 23.31-34)

Yoahaz avait vingt-trois ans à son avènement et il régna trois mois à Jérusalem[a], car le roi d’Egypte le destitua à Jérusalem même et imposa au pays un tribut de trois mille quatre cents kilogrammes d’argent et d’or.

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Footnotes

  1. 36.2 En 609 av. J.-C. Voir note 2 R 23.31.

Joahaz Rules Judah

36 Then the people of the land took Joahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in place of his father in Jerusalem. Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king. And he ruled for three months in Jerusalem. Then the king of Egypt took Joahaz’s power away at Jerusalem, and made the people of the land pay a tax of silver weighing as much as 100 men, and gold weighing as much as one man.

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36 And the people(A) of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.

Jehoahaz King of Judah(B)

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

36 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.

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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