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In his days Pharaohnechoh, king of Egypt, went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went against him; but as soon as he saw him, he slew him at Megiddo.
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And his slaves carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own sepulchre. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and anointed him and made him king in his father’s stead.
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Jehoahaz
was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name
was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
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And he did
that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
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And Pharaohnechoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, as he was reigning in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
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Then Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim, the son of Josiah, king in the place of Josiah his father and changed his name to Jehoiakim and took Jehoahaz and carried him to Egypt, and he died there.
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And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he caused the land to be valued to give
this money according to the commandment of Pharaoh; he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of each one according to the estimation of
his worth, to give
it unto Pharaohnechoh.
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Jehoiakim
was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name
was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
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And he did
that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.