(lame). (2 Chronicles 35:20,22; 36:4) [PHARAOH-NECHO]
Necho
Josiah was a good king who died in a fight he did not need to have. Necho, king of Egypt, marched toward the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to meet him at Megiddo. The chronicler says Necho spoke “from the mouth of God,” and that Josiah “hearkened not” to him. Josiah was killed in the battle. A few verses later Necho comes back into the story: he removed Josiah’s son Jehoahaz, carried him off to Egypt, and set up another brother, renamed Jehoiakim, in his place. Egypt’s king thus decides who rules in Jerusalem. The full account is in 2 Chronicles 35 and 36.
3 verses
2 Chronicles
2 Chronicles 35:20
After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
2 Chronicles 35:22
Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
2 Chronicles 36:4
And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
From Smith's Bible Dictionary
William Smith, 1884