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2 Kings 23:26-28
New Catholic Bible
2 Kings 23:26-28
New Catholic Bible
26 In spite of this, the Lord did not turn away the heat of his fierce anger which raged against Judah because all of the things that Manasseh had done to provoke his anger. 27 The Lord said, “I will remove Judah from out of my sight just as I have removed Israel. I will reject this city that I have chosen, Jerusalem, and the temple of which I said: My name will be there.”
28 [a]As for all of the other deeds of Josiah, what he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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- 2 Kings 23:28 After the threat from Assyria (which was attacked by the Babylonians and Medes in 616 B.C.; Nineveh fell in 612 B.C.), came the threat from Egypt. Josiah tried to stop the pharaoh as the latter was marching to the aid of Assyria; Josiah opposed him at Haran but it ended tragically (609 B.C.).
