2Ch 36:1-4 | NASB2020 | STEP | Then the people of the land took Joahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in place of his father in Jerusalem .

2 Chronicles 36:1-4

Joahaz, Jehoiakim, Then Jehoiachin Rule

1 ^aThen the people of the land took ^{▼▼I.e., short form of Jehoahaz
,} ^cJoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in place of his father in Jerusalem. 2 Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned for three months in Jerusalem. 3 Then the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem, and imposed a fine on the land of ^{▼▼About 3.75 tons or 3.4 metric tons}a hundred talents of silver and ^{▼▼About 75 lb. or 34 kg}one talent of gold. 4 The king of Egypt made ^{▼▼Lit his}Joahaz’s brother Eliakim king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But ^gNeco took his brother Joahaz and brought him to Egypt.