2 Kings 23:29

Good News Translation

²⁹While Josiah was king, King Neco of Egypt led an army to the Euphrates River to help the emperor of Assyria. King Josiah tried to stop the Egyptian army at Megiddo and was killed in battle.

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Zechariah 12:11

Good News Translation

¹¹At that time the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad Rimmon^[a] in the plain of Megiddo.

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Footnotes

Zechariah 12:11 Probably a name for Baal, the god of vegetation in Canaan and Syria. When the vegetation died each year, the worshipers thought that the god had died, and they mourned his death.

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