2 Chronicles 36:3-5
1599 Geneva Bible
3 And the king of Egypt took him away at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an [a]hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
4 ¶ And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim: and Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
5 Jehoiakim was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem, and did [b]evil in the sight of the Lord his God.
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- 2 Chronicles 36:3 To pay this as a yearly tribute.
- 2 Chronicles 36:5 Because he and the people turned not to God by his first plague, he brought a new upon him, and at length rooted them out.
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