Graphic Bible · Scene 35 of 37

Jehoiakim in blue receives weighed tribute from Judahite tax collectors as anxious households wait; no readable ledger.
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2 Kings 23:35

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Josiah's Covenant and Judah's Last Kings · 2 Kings 23

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35And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the silver according to Pharaoh’s command. He exacted the silver and the gold from the people of the land, each according to his valuation, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.

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