2 Kings 23:29-37

29 While Josiah was king, Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went up to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out to meet him in battle, but Necho faced him and killed him at Megiddo.
30 Josiah’s servants brought his body in a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.

Jehoahaz King of Judah

31 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
32 He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, just as his predecessors had done.
33 Pharaoh Necho put him in chains at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents[a] of silver and a talent[b] of gold.
34 Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah and changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, and there he died.
35 Jehoiakim paid Pharaoh Necho the silver and gold he demanded. In order to do so, he taxed the land and exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land according to their assessments.
36 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah; she was from Rumah.
37 And he did evil in the eyes of the LORD, just as his predecessors had done.

Cross References 13

  • 1. ver 33-35; Jeremiah 46:2
  • 2. 2 Kings 9:27; Zechariah 12:11
  • 3. S 2 Kings 9:28
  • 4. 1 Chronicles 3:15; Jeremiah 22:11
  • 5. 2 Kings 24:18
  • 6. 1 Kings 15:26
  • 7. S Numbers 34:11; 2 Kings 25:6
  • 8. 1 Kings 8:65
  • 9. 2 Kings 24:6; 1 Chronicles 3:15; 2 Chronicles 36:5-8; Jeremiah 1:3
  • 10. Jeremiah 22:12; Ezekiel 19:3-4
  • 11. ver 33; Jeremiah 2:16
  • 12. Jeremiah 26:1
  • 13. 1 Kings 15:26

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. That is, about 3 3/4 tons or about 3.4 metric tons
  • [b]. That is, about 75 pounds or about 34 kilograms
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