2 Chronicles 35:21-27

21 But Neco sent messengers to him, saying, "¹What 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 away from him, but ²disguised himself in order to make war with him; nor did he listen to the words of Neco ³from the mouth of God, but came to make war on the plain of ⁴Megiddo.

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 where he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. ⁵All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

25 Then ⁶Jeremiah 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.

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2 Chronicles 35:21-27 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 35

In this chapter we have an account of the keeping of the passover and its preparation, for which the priests and Levites were ordered to prepare, and to which Josiah, and his princes, gave liberally, and such an one was kept as had not been for ages past, 2Ch 35:1-19, and of Josiah's rash engagement in battle with the king of Egypt, in which he was slain, 2Ch 35:20-23 and of the great lamentations that were made for him, 2Ch 35:24-27.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 6

1. 2 Chronicles 25:19
2. 2 Chronicles 18:29
3. 2 Chronicles 35:21
4. Judges 5:19
5. Zechariah 12:11
6. Jeremiah 22:10; Lamentations 4:20

Footnotes 3

[a]. Lit "he"
[b]. Lit "his face"
[c]. Lit "and"