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2 Chronicles 36:1-5

2 Chronicles 36:1

Then the people of the land took Joahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in place of his father in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 36:2

Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned for three months in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 36:3

Then the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem, and imposed a fine on the land of a hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.

2 Chronicles 36:4

The king of Egypt made Joahaz’s brother Eliakim king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took his brother Joahaz and brought him to Egypt.

2 Chronicles 36:5

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem; and he did evil in the sight of the Lord his God.