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2 Chronicles 35
²⁴ So they lifted Josiah out of his chariot and placed him in another chariot. Then they brought him back to Jerusalem, where he died. He was buried there in the royal cemetery. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for him.
²⁵ The prophet Jeremiah composed funeral songs for Josiah, and to this day choirs still sing these sad songs about his death. These songs of sorrow have become a tradition and are recorded in The Book of Laments.
²⁶ The rest of the events of Josiah’s reign and his acts of devotion (carried out according to what was written in the Law of the LORD),
²⁷ from beginning to end—all are recorded in The Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.
2 Chronicles 36
¹ Then the people of the land took Josiah’s son Jehoahaz and made him the next king in Jerusalem.
² Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months.
³ Then he was deposed by the king of Egypt, who demanded that Judah pay 7,500 pounds of silver and 75 pounds of gold as tribute.
⁴ The king of Egypt then installed Eliakim, the brother of Jehoahaz, as the next king of Judah and Jerusalem, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. Then Neco took Jehoahaz to Egypt as a prisoner.
⁵ Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
⁶ Then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to Jerusalem and captured it, and he bound Jehoiakim in bronze chains and led him away to Babylon.
⁷ Nebuchadnezzar also took some of the treasures from the Temple of the LORD, and he placed them in his palace in Babylon.