2Ki 23:33, 35, Neh 5:4, 9:37, Lam 5:16 | ESV | STEP | And Pharaoh Neco put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath , that he might not reign in Jerusalem , and laid on the land a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold .

a[See ver. 29 above]

2 Kings 23:33

33 And ^aPharaoh Neco put him in bonds at ^bRiblah in the land of ^cHamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and laid on the land a tribute of a hundred talents ^{▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms} of silver and a talent of gold.

2 Kings 23:35

35 And Jehoiakim ^egave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the money according to the command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from everyone according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.

Nehemiah 5:4

4 And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for ^fthe king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards.

Nehemiah 9:37

37 ^gAnd its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. They rule over our bodies and over our livestock as they please, and we are in great distress.

Lamentations 5:16

16 ^hThe crown has fallen from our head;
woe to us, for we have sinned!