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^(ay)His servants drove ^[o]his body in a chariot from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. ^(az)Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.

^(ba)Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was ^(bb)Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord , ^(bc)according to all that his fathers had done.

^(bd)Pharaoh Neco imprisoned him at ^(be)Riblah in the land of ^(bf)Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and he imposed on the land a fine of one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

Pharaoh Neco made ^(bg)Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and ^(bh)changed his name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz away and ^[p](bi)brought him to Egypt, and he died there.