2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 166
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Egypt came to raise war at
Carchamis upon Euphrates:
Cf. and Yosiah went out against
2 Chr. 35:20.
him.
26 But the king of Egypt sent
to him saying, What have I
to do with you, O king of
Yahudea?
27 I am not sent out from
Yahuah Elohim against you:
for my war is upon Euphrates,
and now Yahuah is with me,
yes Yahuah is with me hasting
me forward: Depart from me
and be not against Yahuah.
28 Howbeit Yosiah did not
turn back his chariot from
him, but undertook to fight
with him, not regarding
the words of the Prophet
YirmiYahu, spoken by the
mouth of Yahuah:
29 But joined battle with him
in the plain of Megiddo, and
the princes came against king
Yosiah.
30 Then said the king unto
his servants, carry me away
out of the battle for I am very
weak: and immediately his
servants took him away out of
the battle.
31 Then he got up upon his
second chariot, and being
brought back to Yerusalem,
died, and was buried in his
father’s sepulchre.
32 And in all Yahudea they
mourned for Yosiah, yes
T H E
F I R S T
T E M P L E
YirmiYahu
the
Prophet
lamented for Yosiah, and the
chief men with the women
made lamentation for him
unto this day: and this was
given out for an ordinance to
be done continually in all the
nation of Israel.
The Last
Yahudah
Kings
of
33 These things are written
in the book of the stories of 2 Kings and
the kings of Yahudah, and 2 Chronicles.
every one of the acts that
Yosiah did, and his glory, and
his understanding in the law
of Yahuah, and the things
that he had done before, and
the things now recited, are
reported in the books of the 2 Kings and
2 Chronicles.
Kings of Israel and Yahudea.
34 And the people took
Yeconiah the son of Yosiah,
and made him king instead of
Cf.
Yosiah his father, when he was 2 Ki. 23:30;
2 Chr. 36:1.
twenty and three years old.
35 And he reigned in Yahudea
and in Yerusalem three
months: and then the King
of Egypt deposed him from
reigning in Yerusalem.
36 And he set a tax upon the
land of an hundred talents of
silver, and one talent of gold.
37 The king of Egypt also
made king Yehoiakim his
brother king of Yahudea and
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