^{1 Ref} Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.

² Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months.

^{3 Ref} Then the king of Egypt took the kingdom from him in Jerusalem, and put on the land a tax of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

^{4 Ref} And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, changing his name to Jehoiakim. And Neco took his brother Jehoahaz away to Egypt.

^{5 Ref} Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God.

^{6 Ref} Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up against him, and took him away in chains to Babylon.

^{7 Ref} And Nebuchadnezzar took away some of the vessels of the Lord's house, and put them in the house of his god in Babylon.

^{8 Ref} Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and the disgusting things he did, and all there is to be said against him, are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah; and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.

^{9 Ref} Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months and ten days, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

^{10 Ref} In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and took him away to Babylon, with the beautiful vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah, his father's brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem.

^{11 Ref} Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years.

^{12 Ref} He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did not make himself low before Jeremiah the prophet who gave him the word of the Lord.