1
Then the people of the land took Joachaz the son of Josias, and made him king instead of his father in Jerusalem.
2
Joachaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
3
And the king of Egypt came to Jerusalem, and deposed him, and condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
4
And he made Eliakim his brother king in his stead, over Juda and Jerusalem: and he turned his name to Joakim: but he took Joachaz with him and carried him away into Egypt.
5
Joakim was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did evil before the Lord his God.