2Chronicles:35:20-36
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After all this ,
when Josiah had prepared the temple ,
Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against (
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Which was a city of the Assyrians and Josiah fearing lest in passing through Judah he would have taken his kingdom ,
made war against him and did not consult the Lord .(:
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Carchemish by Euphrates :
and Josiah went out against him .
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But he sent messengers to him ,
saying ,
What haue I to doe with thee ,
thou King of Iudah ?
I come not against thee this day ,
but against the house of mine enemie ,
and God commanded me to make haste :
leaue of to come against God ,
which is with me ,
least he destroy thee .
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Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him ,
but (
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That is ,
armed or disguised himself so that he would not be recognized .(:
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disguised himself ,
that he might fight with him ,
and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God ,
and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo .
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And the shooters shot at king Iosiah :
then the King saide to his seruants ,
Cary me away ,
for I am very sicke .
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His 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 (
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The people so lamented the loss of this good king that after when there was any great lamentation this was spoken of as a proverb , (
Zec_12
:11 ).(:
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mourned for Josiah .
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And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah :
and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day ,
and made them an ordinance in Israel :
and ,
behold ,
they [
are ]
written in the (
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Which some think Jeremiah wrote ,
in which he laments the state of the church after this king '
s death .(:
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lamentations .
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Concerning the rest of the actes of Iosiah and his goodnesse ,
doing as it was written in the Lawe of the Lorde ,
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And his deedes ,
first and last ,
behold ,
they are written in the booke of the Kings of Israel and Iudah .
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