2 Chronicles 35:20–27

Josiah Dies in Battle

^20aAfter all this, when Josiah had set the ¹temple in order, Neco king of Egypt came up to make war at ^bCarchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to engage him.

²¹But ¹Neco sent messengers to him, saying, “^aWhat 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.”

²²However, Josiah would not turn ¹away from him, but ^adisguised himself in order to make war with him; nor did he listen to the words of Neco ^bfrom the mouth of God, but came to make war on the plain of ^cMegiddo.

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 in the second chariot which he had, and brought him to Jerusalem ¹where he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. ^aAll Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

²⁵Then ^aJeremiah 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.

²⁶Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and his deeds of devotion as written in the law of the Lord,

²⁷and his acts, first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.