36 Then the people of Yehudah (Judah) took Yoshiyah’s (Josiah’s) son Yehoahaz and made him king in Yerushalem (Jerusalem) to replace his father. 2 Yehoahaz was twenty-three when he became king, and he reigned from Yerushalem for only three months. 3 Then Mitsrayim’s (Egypt’s) king deposed him and forced the country to pay an annual tribute of thirty kilograms of gold and three tonnes of silver. 4 ⇔Mitsrayim’s King Nekoh took Yehoahaz to Mitsrayim,[ref] and then the king made his younger brother Elyakim king over Yehudah and Yerushalem, although he changed Elyakim’s name to Yehoyakim.

31 Yehoahaz was twenty-three when he became king, and he reigned from Yerushalem (Jerusalem) for only three months. (His mother was Yirmiyah’s (Jeremiah’s) daughter Hamutal from Livnah.) 32 He did what Yahweh had said was evil like many of his ancestors had done. 33 Par’oh (Pharaoh) Nekoh took him from Yerushalem and imprisoned him at Rivlah in the Hamat region, and he forced the residents of Yehudah (Judah) to pay him thirty kilograms of gold and three tonnes of silver. 34 Then Nekoh appointed Yoshiyah’s (Josiah’s) son Elyakim as the new king but changed his name to Yehoyakim. Then he took Yehoahaz to Mitsrayim (Egypt) where he eventually died. 35 So Yehoyakim paid the gold and silver to Par’oh by assessing the wealth of the people and then forcibly collecting the gold and silver from them to send to Par’oh Nekoh.