2 Chronicles 35:21-23

International Standard Version

²¹ But he sent messengers to him, who asked him, “What do we have in common, King of Judah? I am not here today opposing you. I am fighting the dynasty that is fighting me, and God has ordered me to hurry. For your own good, stop interfering with God, who is with me, and he won’t destroy you!”

²² But Josiah wouldn’t turn around. In fact, he put on a disguise so he could fight Neco.^[a] He wouldn’t listen to what God told him through what Neco had to say, and as a result, Josiah came to attack Neco^[b] on the Megiddo plain. ²³ Some archers shot King Josiah, and the king told his servants, “Take me away, because I’m badly wounded.”