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2 Kings 23:31–37, “Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done. And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there. And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaohnechoh. Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.”
Jehoahaz replaced his father on the Judean throne. He didn’t follow the Lord like his father but followed in the ways of this grand father and great grand father. After Pharaohnechoh was defeated, along with the Assyrians, at Carchemish, he hurried back to Egypt. He decided to punish Jerusalem because Josiah had come to fight him while he was on his way to Carchemish. However, Josiah was no longer on the throne and his son Jehoahaz was taken away to Hamath, north of Damascus. Pharaohnechoh forced Judah to become a vassal state and pay him regular taxes. Pharaohnechoh put another king on the throne, Jehoiakim, Jehoahaz’s brother. Jehoiakim was another evil king and he remained on the throne for eleven years.
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