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The archers shot at King Josiah; and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, because I am seriously wounded!”

2 Chronicles 35:23 · WEB

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ગુજરાતી2 કાળવૃતાંત ૩૫:૨૩
નખોના ધનુર્ધારીઓ સૈનિકોએ યોશિયા રાજાને બાણ માર્યાં. તેથી રાજાએ તેના ચાકરોને કહ્યું, “મને લઈ જાઓ, કેમ કે હું સખત ઘવાયો છું.”
हिन्दी2 इतिहास ३५:२३
तब धनुर्धारियों ने राजा योशिय्याह की ओर तीर छोड़े; और राजा ने अपने सेवकों से कहा, “मैं बहुत घायल हो गया हूँ, इसलिए मुझे यहाँ से ले चलो।”

In context

21But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you today, but against the house with which I have war. God has commanded me to make haste. Beware that it is God who is with me, that he not destroy you.”

22Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and didn’t listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

23The archers shot at King Josiah; and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, because I am seriously wounded!”

24So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

25Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel. Behold, they are written in the lamentations.

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