The Passover of Josiah

In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah, this Passover was kept. None of the kings of Israel had kept such a Passover as was kept by Josiah. After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Niko, King of Egypt, went up to fight at Kharkamesh on the Euphrates and Josiah went out against him. He did not listen to the words of Niko from the mouth of God, but joined battle in the plain of Megiddo. And the archers shot King Josiah, and the king said to his servants, Take me away, for I am badly wounded. So his servants took him out of the char