Verse 21
But he sent ambassadors to him ,.... That is, Necho sent to Josiah:
saying, what have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah ? signifying he had no quarrel with him, he did not come to fight with him, and he had no business to intermeddle between him and another prince:
I come not against thee this day ; in an hostile manner:
but against the house wherewith I have war ; the king of Assyria:
for God commanded me to make haste ; and oppose his enemy: according to the Targum, it was his idol; and which is the sense of other Jewish writers F25 T. Bab. Taanith, fol. 22. 2. ; but the true God might have appeared to him in a dream, or sent a prophet to him; or at least he might pretend this, that it might have the greater effect on Josiah; and indeed it seems to be real from the following verse:
forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not ; he concluded God was with him, and would succeed him, because he had put him upon this enterprise, and hastened him to it; therefore Josiah, in opposing him, might expect to be resisted by him, and fall.
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