Judah's Decline

36 (A)The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in his father's place in Jerusalem. Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. Then the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and (B)laid on the land a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent[a] of gold.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 36:3 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms

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