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2 Kings 23:27-29
New English Translation
2 Kings 23:27-29
New English Translation
27 The Lord announced, “I will also spurn Judah,[a] just as I spurned Israel. I will reject this city that I chose—both Jerusalem and the temple, about which I said, ‘I will live there.’[b]
28 The rest of the events of Josiah’s reign and all his accomplishments are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.[c] 29 During Josiah’s reign[d] Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt marched toward[e] the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out to fight him, but Necho[f] killed him at Megiddo when he saw him.
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- 2 Kings 23:27 tn Heb “Also Judah I will turn away from my face.”
- 2 Kings 23:27 tn Heb “My name will be there.”
- 2 Kings 23:28 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Josiah, and all which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”
- 2 Kings 23:29 tn Heb “In his days.”
- 2 Kings 23:29 tn Heb “went up to.” The idiom עַל…עָלָה (ʿalah…ʿal) can sometimes mean “go up against,” but here it refers to Necho’s attempt to aid the Assyrians in their struggle with the Babylonians.
- 2 Kings 23:29 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Necho) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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