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Nova Vulgata
Nehemiæ 35:20
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- InternationalParallel Translations
Postquam instauraverat Josias templum, ascendit Nechao rex Ægypti ad pugnandum in Charcamis juxta Euphraten : et processit in occursum ejus Josias.
Postquam instauraverat Josias templum, ascendit Nechao rex Ægypti ad pugnandum in Charcamis juxta Euphraten: et processit in occursum ejus Josias.
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 Egypt — Pharaoh the lame, says the Targum.
