- 他差遣使者来见约西亚,说,犹大王阿,我与你何干。我今日来不是要攻击你,乃是要攻击与我争战之家,并且神吩咐我速行,你不要干预神的事,免得他毁灭你,因为神是与我同在。
- 约西亚却不肯转去离开他,改装要与他打仗,不听从神藉尼哥之口所说的话,便来到米吉多平原争战。
- 弓箭手射中约西亚王。王对他的臣仆说,我受了重伤,你拉我出阵吧。
- 他的臣仆扶他下了战车,上了次车,送他到耶路撒冷,他就死了,葬在他列祖的坟墓里。犹大人和耶路撒冷人都为他悲哀。
- 耶利米为约西亚作哀歌。所有歌唱的男女也唱哀歌,追悼约西亚,直到今日。而且在以色列中成了定例。这歌载在哀歌书上。
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- But Neco sent messengers to him, saying, "What quarrel is there between you and me, O king of Judah? It is not you I am attacking at this time, but the house with which I am at war. God has told me to hurry; so stop opposing God, who is with me, or he will destroy you."
- Josiah, however, would not turn away from him, but disguised himself to engage him in battle. He would not listen to what Neco had said at God's command but went to fight him on the plain of Megiddo.
- Archers shot King Josiah, and he told his officers, "Take me away; I am badly wounded."
- So they took him out of his chariot, put him in the other chariot he had and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died. He was buried in the tombs of his fathers, and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for him.
- Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah, and to this day all the men and women singers commemorate Josiah in the laments. These became a tradition in Israel and are written in the Laments.
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