1Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.
2Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months.
3Then the king of Egypt took the kingdom from him in Jerusalem, and put on the land a tax of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
4And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, changing his name to Jehoiakim. And Neco took his brother Jehoahaz away to Egypt.
5Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God.
6Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up against him, and took him away in chains to Babylon.
7And Nebuchadnezzar took away some of the vessels of the Lord's house, and put them in the house of his god in Babylon.
