Thematic Bible: Also called shallum


Thematic Bible



The people of the land crowned Josiah's son Jehoahaz as their new king in Jerusalem in place of his father.

This is what Jehovah says about King Josiah's son Shallum, who succeeded his father as king of Judah and left this place: 'He will never come back here again.

His servants took his body in a carriage from Megiddo to Jerusalem. They buried him there. The people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah, and put the holy oil on him and made him king in place of his father. Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king. He ruled in Jerusalem for three months. His mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

The sons of Josiah: Johanan the firstborn, Jehoiakim the second son, Zedekiah the third, Shallum the fourth.


The king of Egypt removed him from office in Jerusalem and fined the country seven thousand five hundred pounds of silver and seventy-five pounds of gold. The king of Egypt made Jehoahaz's brother Eliakim king of Judah and Jerusalem and changed Eliakim's name to Jehoiakim. Necho took Jehoahaz away to Egypt.

And Pharaoh Necho put him in chains at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So that he was not king in Jerusalem. Pharaoh Necho extracted from the land a tax of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. Then Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of Josiah his father. He changed his name to Jehoiakim. He took Jehoahaz away to Egypt, where he remained till he died. Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh. He ordered that the land be taxed to get the money. All the people of the land had to give silver and gold in order to make the payment to Pharaoh Necho.


Do not weep for the dead or mourn for him. Weep continually for the one who goes away. For he will never return or see his native land. This is what Jehovah says about King Josiah's son Shallum, who succeeded his father as king of Judah and left this place: 'He will never come back here again. He will die in the place where they led him captive. He will not see this land again.'


He did evil in the eyes of Jehovah, as his fathers had done.