2 Chronicles 35:20–27

²⁰ⁿAfter all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against ^oCarchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him. ²¹But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, ^pWhat have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: ^qforbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not. ²²Nevertheless Josiah would not ^rturn his face from him, but ^sdisguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho ^tfrom the mouth of God, and came to fight in the ^yvalley of ^uMegiddo. ²³And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded. ^24xHis servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem ^ymourned for Josiah. ²⁵And Jeremiah ^zlamented for Josiah: and all ^athe singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them ^ban ordinance in Israel: and behold, they are written in the lamentations. ²⁶Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the Lord, ²⁷and his deeds, ^cfirst and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

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