1. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and they appointed him king in place of his father, in Jerusalem.
2. Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for three months in Jerusalem.
3. Then the king of Egypt, when he had arrived in Jerusalem, removed him, and condemned the land to one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.
4. And he appointed Eliakim, his brother, as king in his place, over Judah and Jerusalem. And he changed his name to Jehoiakim. Truly, he took Jehoahaz with him, and he led him away to Egypt.
5. Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. And he did evil before the Lord his God.
6. Nebuchadnezzar, the king of the Chaldeans, ascended against him, and led him bound in chains to Babylon.
7. And to there, he also took away the vessels of the Lord, and he placed them in his temple.