30. Then said the king to his servants, Carry me away out of the battle; for I am very weak. And immediately his servants carried him away out of the host.
31. Then got he up upon his second chariot; and being brought back to Jerusalem he died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his fathers.
32. And in all Jewry they mourned for Josias; and Jeremy the prophet lamented for Josias, and the chief men with the women made lamentation for him, to this day: and this was given out for an ordinance to be done continually in all the nation of Israel.
33. These things are written in the book of the histories of the kings of Judea, and every one of the acts that Josias did, and his glory, and his understanding in the law of the Lord, and the things that he had done before, and the things now recited, are reported in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
34. And the people took Joachaz the son of Josias, and made him king instead of Josias his father, when he was twenty and three years old.
35. And he reigned in Judah and in Jerusalem three months: and then the king of Egypt deposed him from reigning in Jerusalem.
36. And he set a tax upon the people of a hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.
37. The king of Egypt also made King Joakim his brother king of Judaea and Jerusalem.
38. And Joakim bound the nobles: but Zarakes his brother he apprehended, and brought him up out of Egypt.
39. Five and twenty years old was Joakim when he began to reign in Judaea and Jerusalem; and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.
40. And against him Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came up, and bound him with a chain of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
41. Nabuchodonosor also took of the holy vessels of the Lord, and carried them away, and set them up in his own temple at Babylon.
42. But those things that are reported of him, and of his uncleanness and impiety, are written in the chronicles of the kings.
43. And Joakim his son reigned in his stead: for when he was made king he was eighteen years old;