22. But Josiah did not turn away from him; instead, in order to fight with him he disguised himself. He did not listen to Neco’s words from the mouth of God, but went to the Valley of Megiddo to fight.
23. The archers shot King Josiah, and he said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am severely wounded! ”
24. So his servants took him out of the war chariot, carried him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem. Then he died, and they buried him in the tomb of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
25. Jeremiah chanted a dirge over Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women still speak of Josiah in their dirges to this very day. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Dirges.
26. The rest of the events of Josiah’s reign, along with his deeds of faithful love according to what is written in the law of the Lord,
27. and his words, from beginning to end, are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.