2 Chronicles 35:19-21

International Standard Version

¹⁹ This Passover celebration was observed during the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah.

Pharaoh Neco and Josiah’s Death^(A)

²⁰ Some time after all of this, after Josiah had finished preparing the Temple, King Neco of Egypt invaded Carchemish on the Euphrates River,^[a] and Josiah went out to fight him. ²¹ But he sent messengers to him, who asked him, “What do we have in common, King of Judah? I am not here today opposing you. I am fighting the dynasty that is fighting me, and God has ordered me to hurry. For your own good, stop interfering with God, who is with me, and he won’t destroy you!”