2Ki 23:29 | TNotes | STEP | 23:29 In 609 BC , Pharaoh Neco was en route to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria in fighting the Babylonians at Haran, when Josiah met him at Megiddo . After the death of Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in 626 BC , Assyrian cities began falling to Nabopolassar (626–605 BC ), king of the rising neo-Babylonian power. Nabopolassar captured Nineveh, the capital of Assyria, in 612 BC . The Assyrian forces fled to Haran, where the Babylonians defeated them in 609 BC . Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon (605–562 BC ) later defeated the remaining Assyrians at Carchemish in 605 BC , the same year in which he first invaded Judah (see 24:1 ).

‏ 2 Kings 23:29

23:29 ^a In 609 BC, Pharaoh Neco was en route to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria in fighting the Babylonians at Haran, when Josiah met him at Megiddo. After the death of Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in 626 BC, Assyrian cities began falling to Nabopolassar (626–605 BC), king of the rising neo-Babylonian power. Nabopolassar captured Nineveh, the capital of Assyria, in 612 BC. The Assyrian forces fled to Haran, where the Babylonians defeated them in 609 BC. Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon (605–562 BC) later defeated the remaining Assyrians at Carchemish in 605 BC, the same year in which he first invaded Judah (see 24:1 ^b).