2 Chronicles 35:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

After all this. Thirteen years after.

temple. house.

Necho. Called also Pharaoh-necho. Said to be the founder of the twentyfifth dynasty, about the thirty-fifth year of Manasseh: i.e. in 553 B.C.

against. at.

Charchemish. the fortress of Chemosh). Pharaohnecho's object was to share the spoils of the falling empire of Assyria. Nineveh was taken 607 B.C. Compare Jeremiah 46:2.

2 Chronicles 35:20

20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple,h Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.