King Neecos Research Paper

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“NECO THE KING OF EGYPT AND JEHOAHAZ”
After Josiah the king of Judah was killed in the battle of Carchemish, his son Jehoahaz succeeded in his father’s throne and became the next king of Judah. He was twenty three years old when he began to reign as king and he reigned three months in Jerusalem, and he was evil before the Lord and God used the same Egyptian king Neco who killed his father to put Jehoahaz down from the throne which he inherited from his father at Jerusalem. It was at these time Neco the king of Egypt put the land of Judah under tribute for a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. King Neco of Egypt then band king Jehoahaz of Judah and took him to Egypt where he was held captive until his death and made his brother Eliakim the next king of Judah (2 chronicles 36:1-4; 2 kings 23:31-36).

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For Jehoiakim the king of Judah to meet up with the demands of Egypt, he turned to his people and extracted or exacted the silver and gold from the people of Judah as he taxed the Jews heavily and gave the wealth of his people black to the Ethiopian Pharaoh of Egypt, Neco. Jehoiakim reigned for eleven years and was under Neco throughout his regime and paid tribute to the king of African-Egyptian for eleven years of his reign; before the Lord brought down the king of Judah because of his evil, and sold him and his people into the hands of the Babylonian king who invaded and took over Judah. When the land of Judah got conquered and taken over by Babylon, the people of Judah were forced to stop giving their tribute to king Neco of Egypt, instead their tribute was paid to the king of Babylon (2 kings 23:34-36; 24:1-2, 7; 2 chronicles

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