Discovery Box2 Chronicles 35:20-23 
Context35:20 After Josiah had done all this for the temple, 1 King Necho of Egypt marched up to do battle at Carchemish on the Euphrates River. 2 Josiah marched out to oppose him. 35:21 Necho 3 sent messengers to him, saying, “Why are you opposing me, O king of Judah? 4 I am not attacking you today, but the kingdom with which I am at war. 5 God told me to hurry. Stop opposing God, who is with me, or else he will destroy you.” 6 35:22 But Josiah did not turn back from him; 7 he disguised himself for battle. He did not take seriously 8 the words of Necho which he had received from God; he went to fight him in the Plain of Megiddo. 9 35:23 Archers shot King Josiah; the king ordered his servants, “Take me out of this chariot, 10 for I am seriously wounded.”
1 tn Heb “After all this, [by] which Josiah prepared the temple.”
2 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Neco) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “What to me and to you, king of Judah?”
5 tn Heb “Not against you, you, today, but against the house of my battle.”
6 tn Heb “Stop yourself from [opposing] God who is with me and let him not destroy you.”
7 tn Heb “and Josiah did not turn his face from him.”
8 tn Heb “listen to.”
9 map For location see Map1 D4; Map2 C1; Map4 C2; Map5 F2; Map7 B1.
10 tn Heb “carry me away.”
