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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.

So Jehoiakim ^(bj)gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land in order to give the money at the ^[q]command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land, each according to his valuation, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.

^(bk)Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

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

^(a)In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years; then he turned and rebelled against him.

The Lord sent against him ^(b)bands of Chaldeans, ^(c)bands of Arameans, ^(d)bands of Moabites, and bands of Ammonites. So He sent them against Judah to destroy it, ^(e)according to the word of the Lord which He had spoken through His servants the prophets.

^(f)Surely at the ^[a]command of the Lord it came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight ^(g)because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done,

and ^(h)also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; and the Lord would not forgive.

Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

So ⁽ⁱ⁾Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.

^(j)The king of Egypt did not come out of his land again, ^(k)for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from ^(l)the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.