27. He went to war with Pharaoh in the plain of Megiddo, and Pharaoh’s commanders came against King Josiah.
28. The king said to his attendants, "Take me away from the battle, for I’m severely wounded." His attendants immediately took him away from the line of battle.
29. Josiah got into a second chariot. After he was brought back to Jerusalem, he died and was buried in his family tomb.
30. The whole land of Judea mourned for Josiah. The prophet Jeremiah also grieved for Josiah. The leading citizens, with the women, grieve over him until this day. This has become a tradition for the whole nation of Israel to observe.
31. These events have been written in the official records of the Judean kings. All of Josiah’s actions—including his honor, his understanding of the Law of the Lord, all that he did previously, and these things that are now told—are described in the official records of the kings of Israel and Judea.
32. Then the leaders of the nation appointed Jeconiah, Josiah’s son, who was 23 years old, as king to succeed his father.
33. He ruled in Judea and Jerusalem for three months. Then the king of Egypt removed him from his rule in Jerusalem
34. and fined the nation 5,700 pounds of silver and fifty-seven pounds of gold.
35. The king of Egypt appointed his own brother Jehoiakim as king of Judea and Jerusalem.
36. Jehoiakim put the officials in prison. He seized his other brother Zarius and took him from Egypt.
37. Jehoiakim was 25 years old when he began to rule over Judea and Jerusalem; he did what was evil in the Lord’s presence.
38. Then Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar went up against him, bound him with bronze chains, and took him away to Babylon.
39. Nebuchadnezzar also seized some of the Lord’s holy equipment, carried it off to Babylon, and placed it in his temple.