2 Kings 23:29

New American Bible - revised edition

In his time Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, went up toward the Euphrates River against the king of Assyria. King Josiah set out to meet him, but was slain at Megiddo at the first encounter.

Cross References

1 Kings 4:12

Baana, son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo and all Beth-shean near Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah to beyond Jokmeam;

2 Kings 14:11

But Amaziah did not listen. So Joash, king of Israel, advanced, and he and Amaziah, king of Judah, met face to face at Beth-shemesh of Judah,

2 Kings 14:8

Then Amaziah sent messengers to Joash, son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, with this message: “Come, let us meet face to face.”

2 Kings 22:20

I will therefore gather you to your ancestors; you shall go to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the evil I am about to bring upon this place.” This they reported to the king.

2 Kings 23:28

The rest of the acts of Josiah, with all that he did, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.

2 Kings 24:7

The king of Egypt did not again leave his own land, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the wadi of Egypt to the Euphrates River. Reign of Jehoiachin.

2 Kings 9:27

Seeing what was happening, Ahaziah, king of Judah, fled toward Beth-haggan. Jehu pursued him, shouting, “Him too!” They struck him as he rode through the pass of Gur near Ibleam, but he continued his flight as far as Megiddo and died there.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

This is a vanity that occurs on earth: There are those who are just but are treated as though they had done evil, and those who are wicked but are treated as though they had done justly. This, too, I say is vanity.

Jeremiah 22:10

Do not weep for him who is dead, nor mourn for him! Weep rather for him who is going away; never again to see the land of his birth.

Jeremiah 22:11

Thus says the Lord concerning Shallum, son of Josiah, king of Judah, his father’s successor, who left this place: He shall never return,

Jeremiah 22:12

but in the place where they exiled him, there he shall die; he shall never see this land again.

Jeremiah 46:2

Concerning Egypt. Against the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah:

Jeremiah 46:6

The swift cannot flee, nor the warrior escape: There up north, on the banks of the Euphrates they stumble and fall.

Ezekiel 19:1

As for you, raise a lamentation over the princes of Israel,

Zechariah 12:11

On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadadrimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

Romans 11:33

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments and how unsearchable his ways!

Joshua 17:11

Moreover, in Issachar and in Asher Manasseh was awarded Beth-shean and its towns, Ibleam and its towns, the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, the inhabitants of Endor and its towns, the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns (the third is Naphath-dor).

Revelation 16:16

They then assembled the kings in the place that is named Armageddon in Hebrew.

Judges 1:27

Manasseh did not take possession of Beth-shean with its towns or of Taanach with its towns. Nor did they dispossess the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, those of Ibleam and its towns, or those of Megiddo and its towns. The Canaanites continued to live in this district.

Judges 5:19

The kings came and fought; then they fought, those kings of Canaan, At Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; no spoil of silver did they take.