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Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil which I will bring on this place. They brought the king word again.
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A Redefined Peace
Commentators unanimously address the apparent contradiction of Josiah dying "in peace" despite being killed in battle. They explain this promise was not about the manner of his death, but about being mercifully spared from witnessing the horrific destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians, which would happen years later. He was taken away from the evil to come.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
In peace - Josiah's death in battle (2 Kings 23:29) seems to contradict this prophecy verbally, but it does not oppose its true …
19th Century
Anglican
Your grave. —So some manuscripts and the old versions. But the ordinary Hebrew text, your graves, may be right, as referr…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers To his godly ancestors, to share with them in eternal life and…
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