2 Chronicles 36:3

Then the king of Egypt took the kingdom from him in Jerusalem, and put on the land a tax of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

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And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

In Context

2Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months.

4And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, changing his name to Jehoiakim. And Neco took his brother Jehoahaz away to Egypt.

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Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 36:2-11

The Destruction of Jerusalem. ( b. c. 588.) 1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem. 2 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. 3 And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. 4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho… Read the whole commentary →

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