Josiah's son Eliakim, renamed JEHOIAKIM by Pharaoh Necho, who put him on the throne after deposing his brother Jehoahaz (2 Kings 23:34) — an Egyptian puppet who became a Babylonian vassal after Carchemish (605), then rebelled. Jeremiah's woe against him (22:13-19) is scorching: he built a cedar-and-vermilion palace with UNPAID labor, 'his eyes and heart on nothing but dishonest gain.' He is the king who, in one of the Bible's most vivid scenes, sat by his brazier and personally sliced Jeremiah's dictated scroll column by column into the fire (Jeremiah 36:23) — so his sentence is the anti-funeral: no mourner's 'Alas!', 'the burial of a donkey, dragged and flung beyond the gates.' (Kings and Chronicles are quieter about his actual death; the oracle stands as the verdict pronounced.) His eleven-year reign spent Judah's last chance.