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