2 Chronicles 36:1-6 ▼

1 And the people of the land take Jehoahaz son of Josiah and cause him to reign instead of his father in Jerusalem.

2 Jehoahaz [is] a son of twenty-three years in his reigning, and he has reigned three months in Jerusalem,

3 and the king of Egypt turns him aside in Jerusalem, and fines the land one hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold;

4 and the king of Egypt causes his brother Eliakim to reign over Judah and Jerusalem, and turns his name to Jehoiakim; and Necho has taken his brother Jehoahaz and brings him to Egypt.

5 Jehoiakim [is] a son of twenty-five years in his reigning, and he has reigned eleven years in Jerusalem, and he does evil in the eyes of his God YHWH;

6 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has come up against him, and binds him in bronze chains to take him away to Babylon.