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And in all Jewry they mourned for Josiah; yea, Jeremiah the prophet lamented for Josiah, and the chief men with the women made lamentation for him unto this day. And this was given out for an ordinance to be done continually in all the nation of Israel.
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These things are written in the book of the stories of the kings of Judah; and every one of the acts that Josiah did, and his glory, and his understanding in the law of the Lord, and the things that he had done before, and the things now recited, are reported in the book of the kings of Israel and Judea.
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And the people took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and made him king in the stead of Josiah his father when he was twenty and three years old.Œ
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And he reigned in Judea and in Jerusalem three months, and then the king of Egypt deposed him from reigning in Jerusalem.
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And he set a tax upon the land of a hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.
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The king of Egypt also made King Jehoiakim his brother king of Judea and Jerusalem.
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And he bound Jehoiakim and the nobles, but Zarius his brother he apprehended and brought him out of Egypt.
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Five and twenty years old was Jehoiakim when he was made king in the land of Judea and Jerusalem; and he did evil before the Lord.
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Therefore against him Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came up, and bound him with a chain of brass and carried him into Babylon.
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Nebuchadnezzar also took of the holy vessels of the Lord, and carried them away and set them in his own temple at Babylon.
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But those things that are recorded of him, and of his uncleanness and impiety, are written in the chronicles of the kings.