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2 Chronicles 36:3
2 Chronicles 36:3 is verse 3 of 2 Chronicles chapter 36, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
And the king of Egypt dethroned him in Jerusalem and imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
100 talents is approximately 3.77 tons or 3.42 metric tons of silver.
A talent is approximately 75.4 pounds or 34.2 kilograms of gold.
King James Version
And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
World English Bible
The king of Egypt removed him from office at Jerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces
Read in context
2 Chronicles 36:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible
1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.
2 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months.
3 And the king of Egypt dethroned him in Jerusalem and imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
4 Then Neco king of Egypt made Eliakim brother of Jehoahaz king over Judah and Jerusalem, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Eliakim’s brother Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt.
5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
2 Kings 23:33And Pharaoh Neco imprisoned Jehoahaz at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he could not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.