World English Bible
2 Chronicles 36:4
“The king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Neco took Joahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.”
Verse in context — 2 Chronicles 36
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Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
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The king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
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The king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Neco took Joahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
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Jehoiakim was Twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh his God.
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Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
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Solomon’s reign and Judah’s history until the Babylonian exile.
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