Sinai2 Chronicles 35:23
American Standard Version
And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.
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2 Chronicles 35:23 in other translations
The archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, because I am seriously wounded!”
2 Chronicles 35:23 in context
- 21But 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; and God hath commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.
- 22Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
- 23And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.
- 24So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
- 25And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations unto this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.