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35:20. After that Josias had repaired the temple, Nechao king of Egypt
came up to fight in Charcamis by the Euphrates: and Josias went out to
meet him.
35:21. But he sent messengers to him, saying: What have I to do with
thee, O king of Juda? I come not against thee this day, but I fight
against another house, to which God hath commanded me to go in haste:
forbear to do against God, who is with me, lest he kill thee.
35:22. Josias would not return, but prepared to fight against him, and
hearkened not to the words of Nechao from the mouth of God, but went to
fight in the field of Mageddo.
35:23. And there he was wounded by the archers, and he said to his
servants: Carry me out of the battle, for I am grievously wounded.
35:24. And they removed him from the chariot into another, that followed
him after the manner of kings, and they carried him away to Jerusalem,
and he died, and was buried in the monument of his fathers, and all Juda
and Jerusalem mourned for him,
35:25. Particularly Jeremias: whose lamentations for Josias all the
singing men and singing women repeat unto this day, and it became like a
law in Israel: Behold it is found written in the Lamentations.
35:26. Now the rest of the acts of Josias and of his mercies, according
to what was commanded by the law of the Lord:
35:27. And his works first and last, are written in the book of the
kings of Juda and Israel.
2 Paralipomenon Chapter 36
The reigns of Joachaz, Joakim, Joachin, and Sedecias: the captivity of
Babylon released at length by Cyrus.
36:1. Then the people of the land took Joachaz the son of Josias, and
made him king instead of his father in Jerusalem.
36:2. Joachaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
36:3. And the king of Egypt came to Jerusalem, and deposed him, and
condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
36:4. And he made Eliakim his brother king in his stead, over Juda and
Jerusalem: and he turned his name to Joakim: but he took Joachaz with
him and carried him away into Egypt.
36:5. Joakim was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did evil before the Lord
his God.
36:6. Against him came up Nabuchodonosor king of the Chaldeans, and led
him bound in chains into Babylon.
36:7. And he carried also thither the vessels of the Lord, and put them
in his temple.
36:8. But the rest of the acts of Joakim, and his abominations, which he
wrought, and the things that were found in him, are contained in the
book of the kings of Juda and Israel. And Joachin his son reigned in his
stead.
36:9. Joachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and he did evil in the sight of
the Lord.
Eight years old... He was associated by his father to the kingdom, when
he was but eight years old; but after his father's death, when he
reigned alone, he was eighteen years old. 4 Kings 24.8.
36:10. And at the return of the year, king Nabuchodonosor sent, and
brought him to Babylon, carrying away at the same time the most precious
vessels of the house of the Lord: and he made Sedecias his uncle king
over Juda and Jerusalem.
36:11. Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign: and
he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
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