²⁹In his days, Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, went up against the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King Josiah went to meet him, and he^l killed him at Megiddo as soon as he saw him. ³⁰So his servants drove him dead in a chariot from Megiddo, and they brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his tomb. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.

Jehoahaz Reigns in Judah

³¹Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old^m when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah. ³²He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh according to all his ancestorsⁿ had done. ³³Then Pharaoh Neco confined him at Riblah in the land of Hamath, from reigning in Jerusalem, and imposed a levy on the land of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

Jehoiakim Replaces Jehoahaz

³⁴Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in place of Josiah his father, and he changed his name to Jehoiakim. Then he took Jehoahaz and brought him to Egypt, and he died there. ³⁵The silver and the gold Jehoiakim gave to Pharaoh; however, he taxed the land to give the silver to meet the demands of Pharaoh.^o Each according to assessment, he exacted payment of the silver and the gold from the people of the land to give to Pharaoh Neco.

³⁶Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old^p when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Zebudah,^q the daughter of Pedaiah from Rumah. ³⁷He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh according to all that his ancestors^r had done.

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Footnotes

lThat is, Neco
mLiterally “a son of twenty and three years”
nOr “fathers”
oLiterally “on the hunger of Pharaoh”
pLiterally “a son of twenty and five years”
qAccording to the reading tradition (Qere); Kethib reads “Zebidah”
rOr “fathers”