2 Chronicles 35:22

disguised himself Josiah, like Ahab (2 Chronicles 18:29), took the warning so far seriously as to think that his life was in danger and that he would be safer fighting in disguise. The ἐκραταιώθη ("was strengthened") of the LXX. represents an inferior reading.

the valley of Megiddo Cp. Judges 5:19; Zechariah 12:11. In 1Es 1:29, "the plainof Megiddo." The whole (or perhaps only the western part) of the plain of Esdrelon is meant; cp. 1 Chronicles 10:7, note.