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2 Kings 23:31-33
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Jehoahaz’s Reign over Judah

31 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother[a] was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah. 32 He did evil in the sight of[b] the Lord as his ancestors had done.[c] 33 Pharaoh Necho imprisoned him in Riblah in the land of Hamath and prevented him from ruling in Jerusalem.[d] He imposed on the land a special tax[e] of 100 talents[f] of silver and a talent of gold.

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  1. 2 Kings 23:31 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”
  2. 2 Kings 23:32 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
  3. 2 Kings 23:32 tn Heb “according to all that his fathers had done.”
  4. 2 Kings 23:33 tc The consonantal text (Kethib) has “when [he was] ruling in Jerusalem,” but the marginal reading (Qere), which has support from Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, and Latin witnesses, has “[preventing him] from ruling in Jerusalem.”
  5. 2 Kings 23:33 tn Or “fine.”
  6. 2 Kings 23:33 tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 7,500 pounds of silver and 75 pounds of gold (cf. NCV, NLT); CEV “almost four tons of silver and about seventy-five pounds of gold.”
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2 Kings 23:31-33
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31 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his fathers had done. 33 And Pharaoh-necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, [a]that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a [b]tribute of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

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  1. 2 Kings 23:33 According to another reading, when he reigned
  2. 2 Kings 23:33 Or, fine
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