For thussaysthe LORDin regardto Shallumthe sonof Josiah,kingof Judah,who becamekingin the placeof Josiahhis father,whowentforthfrom thisplace,"He will neverreturnthere;
In his daysPharaohNecokingof Egyptwentup to the kingof Assyriato the riverEuphrates.And KingJosiahwentto meethim, and when [Pharaoh Neco] sawhim he killedhim at Megiddo.
His servantsdrovehis bodyin a chariotfrom Megiddo,and broughthim to Jerusalemand buriedhim in his own tomb.Then the peopleof the landtookJehoahazthe sonof Josiahand anointedhim and madehim kingin placeof his father.
Jehoahazwas twenty-threeyearsoldwhen he becameking,and he reignedthreemonthsin Jerusalem;and his mother'snamewas Hamutalthe daughterof Jeremiahof Libnah.
PharaohNecomadeEliakimthe sonof Josiahkingin the placeof Josiahhis father,and changedhis nameto Jehoiakim.But he tookJehoahazaway and brought[him] to Egypt,and he diedthere.
The sonsof Josiah[were] Johananthe firstborn,and the second[was] Jehoiakim,the thirdZedekiah,the fourthShallum.
Then someof the headsof the sonsof Ephraim--Azariahthe sonof Johanan,Berechiahthe sonof Meshillemoth,Jehizkiahthe sonof Shallum,and Amasathe sonof Hadlai--aroseagainstthose who were comingfrom the battle,
So Hilkiahand [those] whomthe kinghad told wentto Huldahthe prophetess,the wifeof Shallumthe sonof Tokhath,the sonof Hasrah,the keeperof the wardrobe(now she livedin Jerusalemin the SecondQuarter); and they spoketo her regarding this.
"But as for the landto whichthey desireto return,they will not returnto it.
The wordof the LORDwhichcameto Zephaniahsonof Cushi,sonof Gedaliah,sonof Amariah,sonof Hezekiah,in the daysof Josiahsonof Amon,kingof Judah:
