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2 Chronicles 36:1–3

Judah’s Decline

36 mThe people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem. Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. Then the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and nlaid on the land a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent1 of gold.

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For ver. 1–4, see 2 Kgs. 23:30–34

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A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms

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