24 King Yoshiyah (Josiah) also removed the ritual pits and the soothsayers, and the images and idols, and all the abhorrences that were seen in Yerushalem (Jerusalem) and in the Yehudah (Judah) region, in his diligence to obey everything that was written on the scroll that the priest Hilkiyah found in the temple. 25 No other king had been like Yoshiyah who’d led the people back to obeying Yahweh—following Mosheh’s (Moses) written instructions with all his heart and all his spirit and all his energy. What’s more, there’s never been a king like him since then either.

26 However, Yahweh’s anger against Yehudah hadn’t cooled down after everything that King Menasheh (Manasseh) had done[ref] to make him angry, 27 and Yahweh said, “I will also remove Yehudah out of my sight, just like I removed Yisrael (Israel). I’ll also reject this city of Yerushalem that I chose, as well as the house where I’d said that my name would be established.”

28 Everything else that Yoshiyah said and did is written in the book of the events of the kings of Yehudah. 29 While he was still king, the Mitsri (Egyptian) king Par’oh (Pharaoh) Nekoh attacked the Assyrian king near the Perat (Euphrates) River. King Yoshiyah went to meet him, but Nekoh killed him at Megidon when he saw him. 30 His servants brought his body back to Yerushalem from Megidon, and they buried him in his own tomb. Then the people got his son Yehoahaz, and they anointed him and made him king in place of his father.