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In his daysPharaohNecoking of Egyptwent up to the king of Assyria to the riverEuphrates. And KingJosiahwent to meet him, and when Pharaoh Neco saw him he killed him at Megiddo.
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His servantsdrove his body in a chariot from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. Then the people of the landtookJehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.
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Jehoahaz was twenty-three*yearsold when he becameking, and he reignedthreemonths in Jerusalem; and his mother'sname was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
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PharaohNecoimprisoned him at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and he imposed on the land a fine of one hundredtalents of silver and a talent of gold.