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1 Esdras 1:32-37 Common English Bible (CEB)

32. Then the leaders of the nation appointed Jeconiah, Josiah’s son, who was 23 years old, as king to succeed his father.

33. He ruled in Judea and Jerusalem for three months. Then the king of Egypt removed him from his rule in Jerusalem

34. and fined the nation 5,700 pounds of silver and fifty-seven pounds of gold.

35. The king of Egypt appointed his own brother Jehoiakim as king of Judea and Jerusalem.

36. Jehoiakim put the officials in prison. He seized his other brother Zarius and took him from Egypt.

37. Jehoiakim was 25 years old when he began to rule over Judea and Jerusalem; he did what was evil in the Lord’s presence.

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