Jehoahaz of Judah

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Michelangelo's Josiah-Jechoniah-Sheatiel. Jechoniah is generally seen as the child on the right with Josiah being the man holding him. The boy being held by the woman is intended as one of Jechoniah's brothers.^{[citation needed]}

Jehoahaz(in hebrew יהואחז) was king of Judah and son of king Josiah and Hamautal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah (1 Chronicles 3:15; 2 Kings 23:32; Jeremiah (unsure of verse). William F. Albright has dated his reign to 609 BC, a date with which E. R. Thiele concurs. His birth name was Shallum.

He was elected to succeed his father on the throne at the age of twenty-three ([2 Kings] 23:31), although he was two years younger than his brother Eliakim, and assumed the throne name of Jehoahaz. He disregarded the reforms of his father Josiah, according to the author of Kings. Necho II marched with an army against Jerusalem, captured Jehoahaz, enforced a tribute of 100 talents of silver and unknown amount of gold upon the kingdom, and appointed his older brother Eliakim as king, who took the throne name Jehoiakim. Jehoahaz was taken captive to Egypt, where he became the first king of Judah to die in exile.

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