27 The Lord said, “I will do to Judah what I have done to Israel: I will banish the people of Judah from my sight, and I will reject Jerusalem, the city I chose, and the Temple, the place I said was where I should be worshipped.”
28 Everything else that King Josiah did is recorded in The History of the Kings of Judah.
29 While Josiah was king, King Neco of Egypt led an army to the River Euphrates to help the emperor of Assyria. King Josiah tried to stop the Egyptian army at Megiddo and was killed in battle.
30 His officials placed his body in a chariot and took it back to Jerusalem, where he was buried in the royal tombs.The people of Judah chose Josiah's son Joahaz and anointed him king.
31 Joahaz was 23 years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for three months. His mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah from the city of Libnah.
32 Following the example of his ancestors, he sinned against the Lord.
33 His reign ended when King Neco of Egypt took him prisoner in Riblah, in the land of Hamath, and made Judah pay 3.4 tonnes of silver and 34 kilogrammes of gold as tribute.