Pharaoh Neco imprisoned him at Riblah in the land of Hamath to keep him from reigning in Jerusalem, and he imposed on the land a fine of 3.5 tonnes of silver and 35 kilograms of gold.
Solomon and all Israel with him #– #a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath , to the Brook of Egypt #– #observed the festival at that time in the presence of the Lord our God, for seven days, and seven more days #– #fourteen days. ,
During his reign, Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt marched up to help the king of Assyria at the River Euphrates. King Josiah went to confront him, and at Megiddo when Neco saw him he killed him.
So King Hezekiah of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish: ‘I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you demand from me, I will pay.’ The king of Assyria demanded ten tonnes of silver and one tonne of gold from King Hezekiah of Judah.
‘When men get in a fight and hit a pregnant woman so that her children are born prematurely but there is no injury, the one who hit her must be fined as the woman’s husband demands from him, and he must pay according to judicial assessment.
So Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but at Pharaoh’s command he taxed the land to give it. He exacted the silver and the gold from the common people, each according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.
About Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco, Egypt’s king, which was defeated at Carchemish on the River Euphrates by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon in the fourth year of Judah’s King Jehoiakim son of Josiah:
They put a wooden yoke on him with hooks and led him away to the king of Babylon. They brought him into the fortresses so that his roar could no longer be heard on the mountains of Israel.