cSee 1 Kgs. 8:65
2 Kings 23:33-35
33And aPharaoh Neco put him in bonds at bRiblah in the land of cHamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and laid on the land a tribute of a hundred talents ▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
of silver and a talent of gold. 34And ePharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and fchanged his name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz away, gand he came to Egypt and died there. 35And Jehoiakim hgave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the money according to the command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from everyone according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco. 2 Chronicles 35:20-24
Josiah Killed in Battle
20 iAfter all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight at jCarchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to meet him. 21But he sent envoys to him, saying, “What have we to do with each other, king of Judah? I am not coming against you this day, but against the house with which I am at war. And God has commanded me to hurry. Cease opposing God, who is with me, lest he destroy you.” 22Nevertheless, Josiah did not turn away from him, but kdisguised himself in order to fight with him. He did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, but came to fight in the plain of lMegiddo. 23And the archers shot King Josiah. And the king said to his servants, m“Take me away, for I am badly wounded.” 24So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in his second chariot and brought him to Jerusalem. And he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. nAll Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.Jeremiah 46:2
2About Egypt. oConcerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish and which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in pthe fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:
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