³⁴ Then ^(A)Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and ^(B)changed his name to ^(C)Jehoiakim. And Pharaoh took Jehoahaz ^(D)and went to Egypt, and ^[a]he died there.

Jehoiakim Reigns in Judah^(E)

³⁵ So Jehoiakim gave ^(F)the silver and gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give money according to the command of Pharaoh; he exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land, from every one according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Necho. ^36 (G)Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zebudah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. ³⁷ And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.

Judah Overrun by Enemies

24 In ^(H)his days Nebuchadnezzar king of ^(I)Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him. ^2 (J)And the Lord sent against him raiding ^[b]bands of Chaldeans, bands of Syrians, bands of Moabites, and bands of the people of Ammon; He sent them against Judah to destroy it, ^(K)according to the word of the Lord which He had spoken by His servants the prophets. ³ Surely at the commandment of the Lord this came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight ^(L)because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, ^4 (M)and also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the Lord would not pardon.

⁵ 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? ^6 (N)So Jehoiakim rested with his fathers. Then Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

⁷ And ^(O)the king of Egypt did not come out of his land anymore, for ^(P)the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the Brook of Egypt to the River Euphrates.