2 Kings 23:29

_IN HIS DAYS PHARAOH-NECHOH KING OF EGYPT WENT UP AGAINST THE KING OF ASSYRIA TO THE RIVER EUPHRATES: AND KING JOSIAH WENT AGAINST HIM; AND HE SLEW HIM AT MEGIDDO, WHEN HE HAD SEEN HIM._ In his days Pharaoh-nechon - (see 2 Chronicles 35:20, and 2 Chron.)...

25-30 Upon reading these verses, we must say, Lord, though thy righteousness be as the great mountains, evident, plainly to be seen, and past dispute; yet thy judgments are a great deep, unfathomable, and past 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 upon his kingdom: but in wrath to his people, for his death was an inlet to their desolations....

Verse 29. _IN HIS DAYS PHARAOH-NECHOH_] See the note on the death of Josiah, 2 Kings 22:20. _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 Isaiah 10:9....

PHARAOH-NECHOH - This king is well known to us both from profane historians, and from the Egyptian monuments. He succeeded his father Psammetichus (Psamatik) in the year 610 B.C., and was king of Egypt for 16 years. He was an enlightened and enterprising monarch. The great expedition here mentioned was an attempt to detach from the newly-formed Babylonian empire the important tract of country extending from Egypt to the Euphrates at Carchemish. Calculating probably on the friendship or neutrality of most of the native powers, the Egyptian monarch, having made preparations for the space of two years, set out on his march, probably following the (usual) coast route through Philistia and Sharon, from thence intending to cross by Megiddo into the Jezreel (Esdraelon) plain. THE KING OF ASSYRIA - This expression does not imply that Nineveh had not yet fallen. The Jews, accustomed to Assyrian m...

EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 23:1 JOSIAH'S RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT. HIS REFORMS AND DEATH. REIGN OF JEHOAHAZ. ACCESSION OF JEHOIAKIM. 2 KINGS 23:1 _Josiah_'_s renewal of the covenant_._ _The first care of Josiah, on receiving Huldah's message, which stamped the book found as the true "book of the covenant," was to call together a great assembly of the nation, which should be sufficiently representative of it, and renew the covenant between God and his people made originally a

IN HIS DAYS PHARAOHNECHOH KING OF EGYPT,.... Who is called in the Targum Pharaoh the lame, because he was lame in his feet, perhaps gouty; Herodotus x 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, 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 y, 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 privi

2. THE RESULTS OF THE REVIVAL AND THE DEATH OF JOSIAH CHAPTER 23:1-30 _ 1. The People hear the law (2 Kings 23:1; 2 Chronicles 34)_ 2. Josiah makes a covenant (2 Kings 23:3) 3. The great reformations (2 Kings 23:4) 4. The Passover celebrated (2 Kings 23:21; 2 Chronicles 35) 5. Further statements concerning Josiah (2 Kings 23:24

Celebration of the Passover. The mention of the eighteenth year (2 Kings 23:23; cf. 2 Kings 22:3) shows that the reforms of Josiah occupied six months. The book was discovered in the first month of the civil year, in autumn. It was read (_cf._ Deuteronomy 31:10) at the Feast of Tabernacles. The Passover contemplated in Deuteronomy 16:6 was celebrated in the central sanctuary. It was not the domestic feast of the Priestly Code (Exodus 12), but a general assembly of the nation. In 2 Chronicles 30 Hezekiah is said to have kept a similar feast, but this is denied in...

PHARAOH-NECHOH: i.e. Nechoh II, the sixth king of the twentysixth dynasty. His father was. tributary to Assyria, but had secured independence for Egypt. THE KING OF ASSYRIA: i.e. the king of Babylon, who had just conquered Nineveh, the rival capital. WENT AGAINST HIM. His motive not known. HE. the king of Egypt. HIM. Josiah. MEGIDDO. Southern margin of the plain of Esdraelon, celebrated for Syria's defeat by Barak (Judges 5:19). SEEN. Figure of speech _Tapeinosis_, to emphasize the fact that he did much more than "see" him. Compare 2 Kings 14:8 and 2 Chronicles 35:21;...

_Pharaoh-nechoh_ R.V. NECOH. He is stated to have been the 5th or 6th king of the Saïte 26th dynasty. His expedition against the king of Assyria was b.c. 610. He probably came from Egypt by sea and landed on the coast of Palestine. Otherwise Josiah would have chosen some place further south than Megiddo to meet him. From his conduct we may conclude that Josiah at this time was in alliance with, or perhaps tributary to, Assyria. The destination of the Egyptian expedition (according to the Chronicler) was Carchemish on the Euphrates, and he relates the very considerate message which the Egyptian king sent to Josiah, -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. For God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that He destroy thee not." _and king Josiah went against him_...