📖 The Book of 2 Chronicles: Bible Verses and Spiritual Insights

2 CHRONICLES 35:21

But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? [I come] not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from [meddling with] God, who [is] with me, that he destroy thee not. ...

2 CHRONICLES 35:22

Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo. ...

2 CHRONICLES 35:23

And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded. ...

2 CHRONICLES 35:24

His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in [one of] the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. ...

2 CHRONICLES 35:25

# And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they [are] written in the lamentations. ...

2 CHRONICLES 35:26

Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to [that which was] written in the law of the LORD, ...

2 CHRONICLES 35:27

And his deeds, first and last, behold, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. ...

2 CHRONICLES 36:1

Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem. ...

2 CHRONICLES 36:2

Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. ...

2 CHRONICLES 36:3

And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. ...

2 CHRONICLES 36:4

And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt. ...

2 CHRONICLES 36:5

# Jehoiakim [was] twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD his God. ...