2 Chronicles 36:1-8

1The people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem.

2Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

3The king of Egypt prevented him from ruling in Jerusalem and imposed on the land a special tax of one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

4The king of Egypt made Jehoahaz’s brother Eliakim king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Necho seized his brother Jehoahaz and took him to Egypt.

5Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. He did evil in the sight of the Lord his God.

6King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked him, bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away to Babylon.

7Nebuchadnezzar took some of the items in the Lord’s temple to Babylon and put them in his palace there.

8The rest of the events of Jehoiakim’s reign, including the horrible sins he committed and his shortcomings, are recorded in the Scroll of the Kings of Israel and Judah. His son Jehoiachin replaced him as king.