1. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and they appointed him king in place of his father, in Jerusalem.
2. Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for three months in Jerusalem.
3. Then the king of Egypt, when he had arrived in Jerusalem, removed him, and condemned the land to one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.