2 Chronicles 35:19-23
2 Chronicles 35:19
In the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign this Passover was celebrated. Josiah Dies in Battle
2 Chronicles 35:20
After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, Neco king of Egypt came up to wage war at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to engage him.
2 Chronicles 35:21
But Neco sent messengers to him, saying, “What business do you have with me, King of Judah? I am not coming against you today, but against the house with which I am at war, and God has told me to hurry. For your own sake, stop interfering with God who is with me, so that He does not destroy you.”
2 Chronicles 35:22
However, Josiah would not turn away from him, but disguised himself in order to fight against him; nor did he listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, but he came to wage war on the plain of Megiddo.
2 Chronicles 35:23
The archers shot King Josiah, and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am badly wounded.”