1. The people of the land took Jehoahaz, Josiah’s son, and made him the next king in Jerusalem.
2. Jehoahaz was 23 years old when he became king, and he ruled for three months in Jerusalem.
3. The king of Egypt removed him from office in Jerusalem. The Egyptian king imposed a fine on the land totaling one hundred kikkars of silver and one kikkar of gold.
4. Then the king of Egypt made Jehoahaz’s brother Eliakim king of Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Neco took his brother Jehoahaz prisoner and carried him off to Egypt.
5. Jehoiakim was 25 years old when he became king, and he ruled for eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the Lord’s eyes.
6. Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar attacked him, bound him with bronze chains, and took him to Babylon.