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When she saw that she was thwarted,
    that her hope was lost,
she took another of her cubs
    and made him a young lion.(A)

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She raised up one of her cubs;
    he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
    he devoured humans.(A)

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34 Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz away; he came to Egypt and died there.(A) 35 Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land in order to meet Pharaoh’s demand for money. He exacted the silver and the gold from the people of the land, from all according to their assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.(B)

Jehoiakim Reigns over Judah

36 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.(C) 37 He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, just as all his ancestors had done.

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