2 Chronicles 35:20-27 (New American Standard)
View In My BibleJosiah Dies in Battle
20 1After all this, when Josiah had set the atemple in order, Neco king of Egypt came up to make war at 2Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to engage him. 21 But bNeco sent messengers to him, saying, "3What have we to do with each other, O King of Judah ? I am not coming against you today but against the house with which I am at war, and God has ordered me to hurry. Stop for your own sake from interfering with God who is with me, so that He will not destroy you." 22 However, Josiah would not turn caway from him, but 4disguised himself in order to make war with him; nor did he listen to the words of Neco 5from the mouth of God, but came to make war on the plain of 6Megiddo. 23 The archers shot King Josiah, and the king said to his servants, "Take me away, for I am badly wounded." 24 So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in the second chariot which he had, and brought him to Jerusalem dwhere he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. 7All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. 25 Then 8Jeremiah chanted a lament for Josiah. And all the male and female singers speak about Josiah in their lamentations to this day. And they made them an ordinance in Israel ; behold, they are also written in the Lamentations. 26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and his deeds of devotion as written in the law of the LORD, 27 and his acts, first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, California. All rights reserved. (New American Standard Version - Holy Bible)
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