‏ 2 Chronicles 35:20-24

Josiah Dies in Battle

20 aAfter all this, when Josiah had set the
Lit house
temple in order, Neco king of Egypt came up to wage war at cCarchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to engage him.
21But
Lit he
Neco sent messengers to him, saying, “
Lit What to me and to you, an ancient idiom
fWhat business do you have with me, King of Judah? I am not coming against you today, but against the house with which I am at war, and God has told me to hurry. For your own sake, stop interfering with God who is with me, so that He does not destroy you.”
22However, Josiah would not turn
Lit his face
away from him, but hdisguised himself in order to fight against him; nor did he listen to the words of Neco ifrom the mouth of God, but he came to wage war on the plain of jMegiddo.
23The archers shot King Josiah, and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am badly wounded.” 24So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him on the second chariot which he had, and brought him to Jerusalem
Lit and
where he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. lAll Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
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