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Also at sixteen, he married a woman named [[Zebudah]] and by her had a son named [[Jehoiakim]], called ''Eliakim'' when he was born. Two years later (at eighteen), he married another woman, named [[Hamutal]], and by her had a son named [[Jehoahaz II|Jehoahaz]] (originally named ''Shallum''). He also had another son by this woman, named [[Zedekiah]] (or ''Mattaniah'' at his birth), when he, Josiah, was thirty-one years old.<ref name=Ussher/>
Also at sixteen, he married a woman named [[Zebudah]] and by her had a son named [[Jehoiakim]], called ''Eliakim'' when he was born. Two years later (at eighteen), he married another woman, named [[Hamutal]], and by her had a son named [[Jehoahaz II|Jehoahaz]] (originally named ''Shallum''). He also had another son by this woman, named [[Zedekiah]] (or ''Mattaniah'' at his birth), when he, Josiah, was thirty-one years old.<ref name=Ussher/>
Josiah did have one other son, named [[Johanan]].<ref>{{Bible ref|book=I_Chronicles|chap=3|verses=15|version=KJV}}</ref> His position in the listing in that verse makes him the firstborn of Josiah's sons. The [[Bible]] does not mention him again, however. Possibly he perished by his father's side in the military fiasco involving [[Pharaoh]] [[Necho II]] (see below).
== Near Eastern politics ==
== Near Eastern politics ==