2 Kings 23:26-30
New Catholic Bible
26 In spite of this, the Lord did not turn away the heat of his fierce anger which raged against Judah because all of the things that Manasseh had done to provoke his anger. 27 The Lord said, “I will remove Judah from out of my sight just as I have removed Israel. I will reject this city that I have chosen, Jerusalem, and the temple of which I said: My name will be there.”
28 [a]As for all of the other deeds of Josiah, what he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
29 During his reign, Pharaoh Neco, the king of Egypt, traveled up to the Euphrates River to give his assistance to the king of Assyria. King Josiah attacked him. When Pharaoh Neco saw him at Megiddo, he killed him. 30 His servants brought his dead body back from Megiddo to Jerusalem and they buried him in his own tomb.
The people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and they anointed him as king in his father’s stead.
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- 2 Kings 23:28 After the threat from Assyria (which was attacked by the Babylonians and Medes in 616 B.C.; Nineveh fell in 612 B.C.), came the threat from Egypt. Josiah tried to stop the pharaoh as the latter was marching to the aid of Assyria; Josiah opposed him at Haran but it ended tragically (609 B.C.).
