1. The people of Judah chose Josiah’s son Jehoahaz and made him king in Jerusalem in his father’s place.
2. Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he was king in Jerusalem for three months.
3. Then King Neco of Egypt removed Jehoahaz from being king in Jerusalem. Neco made the people of Judah pay about seventy-five hundred pounds of silver and about seventy-five pounds of gold.