2 Kings 23:29–24:7

^29aIn his days ^bPharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. And King Josiah went to meet him, and when Pharaoh Neco saw him he killed him at ^cMegiddo.

^30aHis servants drove ¹his body in a chariot from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. ^bThen the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.

^31aJehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was ^bHamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

³²He did evil in the sight of the Lord, ^aaccording to all that his fathers had done.

^33aPharaoh Neco imprisoned him at ^bRiblah in the land of ^cHamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and he imposed on the land a fine of one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

Jehoiakim Made King by Pharaoh

³⁴Pharaoh Neco made ^aEliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and ^bchanged his name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz away and ^1cbrought him to Egypt, and he died there.

³⁵So Jehoiakim ^agave the silver and gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land in order to give the money at the ¹command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land, each according to his valuation, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.

^36aJehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

³⁷He did evil in the sight of the Lord, ^aaccording to all that his fathers had done.

Chapter 24

Babylon Controls Jehoiakim

^1aIn his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years; then he turned and rebelled against him.

²The Lord sent against him ^abands of Chaldeans, ^bbands of Arameans, ^cbands of Moabites, and bands of Ammonites. So He sent them against Judah to destroy it, ^daccording to the word of the Lord which He had spoken through His servants the prophets.

^3aSurely at the ¹command of the Lord it came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight ^bbecause of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done,

⁴and ^aalso for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; and the Lord would not forgive.

⁵Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

Jehoiachin Reigns

⁶So ^aJehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.

^7aThe king of Egypt did not come out of his land again, ^bfor the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from ^cthe brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.