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And in all Judea they mourned for Josiah. Jeremiah the prophet lamented for Josiah, and the principal men, with the women, have made lamentation for him to this day; it was ordained that this should always be done throughout the whole nation of Israel.
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These things are written in the book of the histories of the kings of Judea; and every one of the acts of Josiah, and his splendor, and his understanding of the law of the Lord, and the things that he had done before and these that are now told, are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
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And the men of the nation took Jeconiah the son of Josiah, who was twenty-three years old, and made him king in succession to Josiah his father.
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And he reigned three months in Judah and Jerusalem. Then the king of Egypt deposed him from reigning in Jerusalem,
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and fined the nation a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
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And the king of Egypt made Jehoiakim his brother king of Judea and Jerusalem.
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Jehoiakim put the nobles in prison, and seized his brother Zarius and brought him up out of Egypt.
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Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign in Judea and Jerusalem, and he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
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And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him with a chain of brass and took him away to Babylon.
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Nebuchadnezzar also took some holy vessels of the Lord, and carried them away, and stored them in his temple in Babylon.
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But the things that are reported about Jehoiakim and his uncleanness and impiety are written in the chronicles of the kings.