1. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in the place of his father in Jerusalem.
2. And Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
3. Then the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and imposed on the land a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
4. The king of Egypt made his brother Eliakim king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But Necho took his brother Jehoahaz and carried him to Egypt.
5. Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he was king in Jerusalem for eleven years. He did what was evil in the eyes of the Lord his God.