³⁰ And his servants cause him to ride dying from Megiddo, and bring him in to Jerusalem, and bury him in his own grave, and the people of the land take Jehoahaz son of Josiah, and anoint him, and cause him to reign instead of his father.

²⁸ and his servants carry him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and bury him in his burying-place, with his fathers, in the city of David.

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

² A son of three and twenty years `is' Jehoahaz in his reigning, and three months he hath reigned in Jerusalem,

³ and turn him aside doth the king of Egypt in Jerusalem, and fineth the land a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold;

⁴ and the king of Egypt causeth Eliakim his brother to reign over Judah and Jerusalem, and turneth his name to Jehoiakim; and Jehoahaz his brother hath Necho taken, and bringeth him in to Egypt.

³³ and it cometh to pass, at the heads of the charioteers seeing that he `is' not the king of Israel, that they turn back from after him.

³⁴ And a man hath drawn with a bow, in his simplicity, and smiteth the king of Israel between the joinings and the coat of mail, and he saith to his charioteer, `Turn thy hand, and take me out from the camp, for I have become sick.'

³⁵ And the battle increaseth on that day, and the king hath been caused to stand in the chariot, over-against Aram, and he dieth in the evening, and the blood of the wound runneth out unto the midst of the chariot,

³⁶ and he causeth the cry to pass over through the camp, at the going in of the sun, saying, `Each unto his city, and each unto his land.'

³⁷ And the king dieth, and cometh into Samaria, and they bury the king in Samaria;

³⁸ and `one' rinseth the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs lick his blood -- when the armour they had washed -- according to the word of Jehovah that He spake.

²¹ And all the people of Judah take Azariah, and he `is' a son of sixteen years, and cause him to reign instead of his father Amaziah;

²⁴ and the people of the land smite all those conspiring against king Amon, and the people of the land cause Josiah his son to reign in his stead.

²⁴ And his servants remove him from the chariot, and cause him to ride on the second chariot that he hath, and cause him to go to Jerusalem, and he dieth, and is buried in the graves of his fathers, and all Judah and Jerusalem are mourning for Josiah,