2 Kings 23:29 BSB — MannaFest

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.

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

4 voices

Ambrose of Milan

CONSOLATION ON THE DEATH OF EMPEROR VALENTINIAN 57 (397)

Nobody must think that anything was detracted to the celerity of death because of one's merits. Enoch was kidnapped, lest malice might spoil his heart, and Josiah, who celebrated the Passover of the Lord in the eighteenth year of his reign in such a manner that he overcame in piousness all the previous kings, did not survive longer through the merits of his faith. No, rather, because grievous destruction threatened the Jewish people, the just king was taken away beforehand.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

The king, &c. - The king of Babylon, who having formerly rebelled against the Assyrian had now conquered him; as appears by the course of the sacred, and the concurrence of the prophane history; and therefore is here and elsewhere called the Assyrian, and the king of Assyria, because now he was the head of that empire.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Some understand the promise made to him that he should come to his grave in peace in a sense in which it was not performed because, by his miscarriage in this matter, he forfeited the benefit of it. God has promised to keep us in all our ways; but, if we go out of our way, we throw ourselves out of his protection.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Pharaoh-Nechoh - This king is well known to us both from profane historians, and from the Egyptian monuments. He succeeded his father Psammetichus (Psamatik) in the year 610 B.C., and was king of Egypt for 16 years. He was an enlightened and enterprising monarch. The great expedition here mentioned was an attempt to detach from the newly-formed Babylonian empire the important tract of country extending from Egypt to the Euphrates at Carchemish.

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בְּיָמָ֡יו	be.ya.Mav	in days his	H3117 →
עָלָה֩	'a.Lah	he went up	H5927 →
פַרְעֹ֨ה	far.'Oh	Pharaoh	H6547 →
נְכֹ֧ה	ne.Khoh	Necho	H5224 →
מֶֽלֶךְ־	Me.lekh-	[the] king of	H4428 →
מִצְרַ֛יִם	mitz.Ra.yim	Egypt	H4714 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
מֶ֥לֶךְ	Me.lekh	[the] king of	H4428 →
אַשּׁ֖וּר	'a.Shur	Assyria	H804 →
עַל־	'al-	to	H5921 →
נְהַר־	ne.har-	[the] river of	H5104 →
פְּרָ֑ת	pe.Rat	Euphrates	H6578 →
וַיֵּ֨לֶךְ	vai.Ye.lekh	and he went	H1980 →
הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ	ha.Me.lekh	the king	H4428 →
יֹאשִׁיָּ֙הוּ֙	yo.shi.Ya.hu	Josiah	H2977 →
לִקְרָאת֔וֹ	lik.ra.To	to meet him	H7122 →
וַיְמִיתֵ֙הוּ֙	vay.mi.Te.hu	and he killed him	H4191 →
בִּמְגִדּ֔וֹ	bim.gi.Do	at Megiddo	H4023 →
כִּרְאֹת֖וֹ	kir.'o.To	when saw he	H7200 →
אֹתֽוֹ׃	'o.To	<obj.> him	H853 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Kings 24:7
Now the king of Egypt did not march out of his land again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River.
leads to
- Jeremiah 37:5–7
  Pharaoh’s army had left Egypt, and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard the report, they withdrew from Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 46:2
  concerning Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of…
- Genesis 15:18
  On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
Through
Judges 5:19
Kings came and fought; then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, but they took no plunder of silver.
leads to
- Judges 1:27
  At that time Manasseh failed to drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo, and their villages; for the Canaanites were determined to dwell in that land.
- Judges 5:30
  ‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil—a girl or two for each warrior, a plunder of dyed garments for Sisera, the spoil of embroidered garments for the neck of the looter?’
Through
Zechariah 12:11
On that day the wailing in Jerusalem will be as great as the wailing of Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 35:24
  So his servants took him out of his chariot, put him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died. And Josiah was buried in the tomb of his fathers, and…
Through
Jeremiah 46:2
concerning Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of…
leads to
- Jeremiah 46:14
  “Announce it in Egypt, and proclaim it in Migdol; proclaim it in Memphis and Tahpanhes: ‘Take your positions and prepare yourself, for the sword devours those around you.’
- Jeremiah 25:1
  This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king…

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The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About 2 Kings