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2 Kings 22:20

Behold therefore, I will gather you unto your fathers, and you shall be gathered into your grave in peace; and your eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Peace, before these horrors overtake the city. Josias was interred with all the usual honours, have fallen in battle, chap. xxiii. 29. (Calmet) Instead of peace, the Alexandrian Septuagint reads, "in Jerusalem "to which city Josias was brought from Mageddo, where he had perhaps rashly attacked the king of Egypt, with whom he had not been engaged in war. (Haydock) This last good king was given to Juda, that he people might not pretend that they were forced to embrace idolatry by the royal power. (St. Jerome) (Du Hamel)

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