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Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling

2 Kronieken 35:20

Hierna, toen Josa het huis toebereid had, trok Necho, de koning van Egypte, op om te strijden tegen Karkemis aan den Frath; en Josa trok hem te gemoet.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Carchemish;   Egyptians;   Josiah;   Necho;   Pharaoh;   Rashness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Carchemish;   Hadadrimmon;   Necho or Pharaoh-Necho;   Pharaoh;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Euphrates;   Jehoiakim;   Josiah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Apocrypha;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Carchemish;   Esdraelon;   Josiah;   Necho Ii;   Pharaoh;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Alliances;   Babel;   Carchemish;   Gaza;   Jeremiah;   Lamentations;   Pharaoh;   Psalms;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Carchemish;   Esdraelon;   Neco;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Carchemish;   Chronicles, I;   Jeremiah;   Nec;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Carchemish ;   Charchemish ;   Egypt;   Josiah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Armageddon;   Carchemish;   Hadad-rimmon;   Necho;   Pharaoh;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Char'chemish;   Ne'cho;   Pha'raoh,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Assyria;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Carchemish;   Egypt;   Esdraelon, Plain of;   Esdras, the First Book of;   Megiddo;   Nebuchadnezzar;   Pharaoh-Necoh;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Carchemish;   Necho;  

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
Na dit alles, toen Jozia den tempel weder in orde gebracht had, is Necho, de koning van Egypte, opgetrokken om bij Karkemis aan den Eufraat strijd te voeren.
Staten Vertaling
Na dit alles, toen Josia het huis toebereid had, toog Necho, de koning van Egypte, op, om te krijgen tegen Karchemis, aan den Frath; en Josia toog uit hem tegemoet.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3394, bc 610

temple: Heb. house

Necho: Pharaoh, the lame, says the Targumist. 2 Kings 23:29, 2 Kings 23:30, Pharaoh-necho, Jeremiah 46:2-12

Charchemish: Isaiah 10:9

Gill's Notes on the Bible

After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple,.... Purified it, and cleansed it from the filth in it, and from all idolatry, and had repaired it, and put the service of it in good order, and on a good footing, after which great prosperity in church and state might have been expected:

Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates; now called Querquisia, supposed by some to be the same with the Cadytis of Herodotus, which that historian calls a great city of Syria, whither he says Necho went after the battle with the Syrians x; of which

:- and of this king of Egypt,

:- :-

and Josiah went out against him; or to meet him, and stop him from going through his land, which lay between Egypt and Syria; Egypt being on the south of Israel, and Euphrates on the north of it, as Jarchi observes.

x Euterpe, sive, l. 2. c. 159. & Galei not. in ib.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

After all this - i. e. 13 years after, 608 B.C. See the 2 Kings 23:28-29 notes.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 35:20. Necho king of EgyptPharaoh the lame, says the Targum.


 
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