John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:20
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... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:20-27
It was thirteen years from Josiah's famous passover to his death. During this time, we may hope, thing went well in his kingdom, that he prospered, and religion flourished; yet we are not entertained with the pleasing account of those years, but they are passed over in silence, because the people, for all this, were not turned from the love of their sins nor God from the fierceness of his anger. The next news therefore we hear of Josiah is that he is cut off in the midst of his days and... read more