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.
4. The king of Egypt made Jehoahaz’s brother Eliakim the king of Judah and Jerusalem and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took his brother Jehoahaz to Egypt.
5. Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was king in Jerusalem for eleven years. He did what the Lord his God said was wrong.
6. King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked Judah, captured Jehoiakim, put bronze chains on him, and took him to Babylon.
7. Nebuchadnezzar removed some of the things from the Temple of the Lord, took them to Babylon, and put them in his own palace.