SEV Biblia, Chapter 23:29
En aquellos días Faraón Necao rey de Egipto subió contra el rey de Asiria al río Eufrates, y salió contra él el rey Josías; pero aquél así que le vio, lo mató en Meguido.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 23:29
Verse 29. In his days Pharaoh-nechoh] See the note on the death of Josiah, chap. xxii. 20. Nechoh is supposed to have been the son of Psammitichus, king of Egypt; and the Assyrian king, whom he was now going to attack, was the famous Nabopolassar. What the cause of this quarrel was, is not known. Some say it was on account of Carchemish, a city on the Euphrates, belonging to the Egyptians, which Nabopolassar had seized. See Isa. x. 9.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 29. In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt , etc.] Who is called in the Targum Pharaoh the lame, because he was lame in his feet, perhaps gouty; Herodotus also calls him Necos the son of Psammiticus; now it was in the last days of Josiah this king reigned in Egypt, or however that the following event was: [that] he went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates ; to Carchemish, a city situated upon it; (see 2 Chronicles 35:26 Jeremiah 46:2), the king he went against was the king of Babylon, who had conquered the Assyrian monarchy, and therefore called king of it; some take him to be Nabopolassar; according to Marsham f291 , he was Chyniladanus; and King Josiah went against him ; to stop him, that he might not pass through his country, and attack the king of Babylon, whose ally, perhaps, Josiah was; or, however, thought himself obliged to him by the privileges, power, and authority he allowed him to exercise in the land of Israel: and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him ; as soon as they came face to face, and engaged in battle, (see 2 Kings 14:8,11) that is Pharaoh slew Josiah at the first onset. Megiddo was a city in the tribe of Manasseh, ( Joshua 17:11). Herodotus calls it Magdolus, which seems to be a city on the borders of Egypt, the same with Migdol, ( Jeremiah 44:1) where he says Pharoahnechoh conquered the Syrians; in Josephus it is called Mendes very wrongly. Josiah seems to have engaged in this action without consulting the Lord and his prophets.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 25-30 - Upon reading these verses, we must say, Lord, though thy righteousnes be as the great mountains, evident, plainly to be seen, and pas dispute; yet thy judgments are a great deep, unfathomable, and pas finding out. The reforming king is cut off in the midst of his usefulness, in mercy to him, that he might not see the evil coming upo his kingdom: but in wrath to his people, for his death was an inlet to their desolations. (2Ki 23:31-37)
Original Hebrew
בימיו 3117 עלה 5927 פרעה נכה 6549 מלך 4428 מצרים 4714 על 5921 מלך 4428 אשׁור 804 על 5921 נהר 5104 פרת 6578 וילך 1980 המלך 4428 יאשׁיהו 2977 לקראתו 7125 וימיתהו 4191 במגדו 4023 כראתו 7200 אתו׃ 853
