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‘Therefore behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place.’”’” So they brought this message back to the king.
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Verse 20. Peace, before these horrors overtake the city. Josias was interred with all the usual honours, have fallen in battle. Calmet. 23:29. Calmet.—Instead of peace, the Alex. 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. Bible.—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. Saint Jerome D.
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