Jehoahaz King of Judah^(A)

36 The people of ·Judah [^Lthe land] ·chose [^Ltook] Josiah’s son Jehoahaz and made him king in Jerusalem in his father’s place.

² Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he ·was king [reigned] in Jerusalem for three months. ³ Then King Neco of Egypt ·removed Jehoahaz from being king [dethroned/deposed him] in Jerusalem. Neco made the people of Judah pay a ·tax [or fine] of ·about seventy-five hundred pounds [^Lone hundred talents] of silver and ·about seventy-five pounds [^Lone talent] of gold. ⁴ The king of Egypt made Jehoahaz’s brother Eliakim the king of Judah and Jerusalem and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took his brother Jehoahaz to Egypt [^Cas a prisoner].

³⁰ Josiah’s ·servants [officers] carried his body in a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him in his own ·grave [tomb]. Then the people of Judah ·chose [took] Josiah’s son Jehoahaz and ·poured olive oil on [anointed] him to make him king in his father’s place.

Jehoahaz King of Judah^(A)

³¹ Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he ·was king [reigned] in Jerusalem for three months. His mother’s name was Hamutal, who was the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah. ³² Jehoahaz did ·what the Lord said was wrong [^Levil in the eyes/sight of the Lord], just as his ·ancestors [fathers] had done.

³³ ·King [^LPharaoh] Neco took Jehoahaz prisoner at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that Jehoahaz could not ·rule [reign] in Jerusalem. Neco ·made the people of Judah pay about [imposed a tribute of] ·seventy-five hundred pounds [^Lone hundred talents] of silver and ·about seventy-five pounds [^La talent] of gold.

³⁴ ·King [^LPharaoh] Neco made Josiah’s son Eliakim the king in place of Josiah his father. Then Neco changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim [^CEliakim means “God has established”; Jehoiakim means “Yahweh has established”; changing Eliakim’s name was a way Pharaoh asserted his authority over him]. But Neco took Jehoahaz to Egypt, where he died.