35 So Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but at Pharaoh’s command he taxed the land to give the money. He exacted the silver and the gold from the common people,[a] each man according to his assessment,(A) to give it to Pharaoh Neco.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 23:35 Lit the people of the land

35 Jehoiakim paid Pharaoh Necho the silver and gold he demanded. In order to do so, he taxed the land and exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land according to their assessments.(A)

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