--- title: "The Death of Josiah" description: "After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, Neco king of Egypt..." image: "" book: "2 Chronicles" bookId: "2CH" testament: "old" startChapter: 35 startVerse: 20 endChapter: 35 endVerse: 26 coversChapters: [35] aiTitle: "The Death of Josiah" aiDescription: "After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, Neco king of Egypt..." hasAiStory: true location: "Plain of Megiddo" persons: ["Josiah","Neco","God","Jeremiah","Israel"] hashtags: ["judgment","war","prophetic"] genre: "history" readingTime: 2 type: "adaptive" slug: "2CH/the-death-of-josiah" canonicalId: "2CH.35.20-35.26" chronologicalOrder: 1023 relatedSlugs: [] prevSlug: "2CH/josiah-restores-the-passover" nextSlug: "2CH/the-path-to-exile" --- After all this, when [Josiah](/persons/josiah) had set the temple in order, [Neco](/persons/neco) king of Egypt marched up to fight at Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to confront him. But Neco sent messengers to him, saying, “What is the issue between you and me, O king of Judah? I have not come against you today, but I am fighting another dynasty. [God](/persons/god) told me to hurry; so stop opposing God, who is with me, or He will destroy you!” Josiah, however, did not turn away from him; instead, in order to engage him in battle, he disguised himself. He did not listen to Neco’s words from the mouth of God, but went to fight him on the Plain of Megiddo. There the archers shot King Josiah, who said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am badly wounded!” So his servants took him out of his chariot, put him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died. And Josiah was buried in the tomb of his fathers, and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for him. ### Laments over Josiah Then [Jeremiah](/persons/jeremiah) lamented over Josiah, and to this day all the choirs of men and women sing laments over Josiah. They established them as a statute for [Israel](/persons/israel), and indeed they are written in the Book of Laments. As for the rest of the acts of Josiah, along with his deeds of loving devotion according to what is written in the Law of the LORD—

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