Jehoahaz was twenty three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem.
And the king of Egypt removed him at Jerusalem, and fined the land a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!
And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.