2 Kings 23:29
At the end of Josiah’s reign, Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt marched up to help the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King Josiah went out to confront him, but Neco faced him and killed him at Megiddo.
In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went against him, but Pharaoh Necoh killed him at Megiddo when he saw him.
In his days Pharaoh-necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and Pharaoh-necoh slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Pharaoh-nechoh
- Pharaoh-nechoh, called [Nekos,] Necos, the son of Psammiticus, by Herodotus, was now was now marching "to make war upon the Medes and Babylonians, who had dissolved the Assyrian empire," the king of the latter being the famous Nabopollasar, who had also become king of Assyria.
- 2 Kings 23:33, 34, 35; 2 Chronicles 35:20–24; Jeremiah 46:2
- Euphrates
- 2 Kings 24:7; 2 Chronicles 35:20; Jeremiah 46:2
- Josiah went
- 2 Chronicles 35:20–23
- slew him
- 2 Kings 22:20; Ecclesiastes 8:14; Ecclesiastes 9:1, 2; Isaiah 57:1, 2; Romans 11:33
- Megiddo
- Megiddo, called [Magdolon,] Magdolum, by Herodotus, was situated in the tribe of Manasseh, west of Jordan, in the valley of Jezreel, and not far fron Hadad-Rimmon, or Maximianopolis. This shews that Josiah reigned over the country formerly possessed by the ten tribes; and it is also probable, that Nechoh had landed his troops at or near Cæsarea of Palestine.
- 2 Kings 9:27; Joshua 17:11; Judges 1:27; Judges 5:19; 1 Kings 4:12; Zechariah 12:11
- Megiddon
- Revelation 16:16
- Armageddon
- he had seen him.
- 2 Kings 14:8, 11