Josiah's Death in Battle

2 Kings 23

28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 29 w In his days x Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. King Josiah went to meet him, and Pharaoh Neco killed him at y Megiddo, as soon as he saw him. 30 z And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from y Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. a And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.

  1. Cross References
    2 Kings 23:29 - 30
    In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. King Josiah went to meet him, and Pharaoh Neco killed him at Megiddo, as soon as he saw him.
    2 Chronicles 35:20 - 24
    After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to meet him.
  2. Cross References
    Jeremiah 46:2
    About Egypt. Concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish and which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:
  3. Cross References
    Judges 5:19
    The kings came, they fought; then fought the kings of Canaan, at Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo; they got no spoils of silver.
    Zechariah 12:11
    On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
  4. Cross References
    2 Kings 9:28
    His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David.
  5. Cross References
    2 Kings 23:29
    In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. King Josiah went to meet him, and Pharaoh Neco killed him at Megiddo, as soon as he saw him.
  6. Cross References
    2 Kings 23:30 - 34
    And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.
    2 Chronicles 36:1 - 4
    The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in his father's place in Jerusalem.
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