12:023:027 And the lord said, I will remove Judah
also out of my sight,
as
I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city
Jerusalem
which I have chosen, and the house of which I said,
My
name shall be there.
12:023:028 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and
all that he did, are
they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of
Judah?
12:023:029 In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt
went up against the
king
of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah
went
against
him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
12:023:030 And his servants carried him in a chariot
dead from Megiddo,
and
brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own
sepulchre.
And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of
Josiah,
and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s
stead.
12:023:031 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old
when he began to
reign;
and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And
his
mother’s
name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
12:023:032 And he did that which was evil in the sight
of the lord,
according
to all that his fathers had done.
12:023:033 And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah
in the land of
Hamath,
that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land
to
a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent
of
gold.
12:023:034 And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son
of Josiah king in the
room
of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim,
and
took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and
died there.
12:023:035 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold
to Pharaoh; but he
taxed
the land to give the money according to the commandment
of
Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of
the people
of
the land, of every one according to his taxation, to
give
it
unto Pharaohnechoh.
12:023:036 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old
when he began to
reign;
and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And
his
mother’s
name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
12:023:037 And he did that which was evil in the sight
of the lord,
according
to all that his fathers had done.
12:024:001 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
came up, and
Jehoiakim
became his servant three years: then he turned
and
rebelled
against him.
12:024:002 And the lord sent against him bands
of the Chaldees, and bands
of
the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of
the
children
of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it,
according
to the word of the lord, which he spake by his
servants
the prophets.


