1 Esdras 1:32
Source: Septuagint
32And in all Jewry they mourned for Josiah, yea, Jeremiah the prophet lamented for Josiah, and the chief men with the women made lamentation for him unto this day: and this was given out for an ordinance to be done continually in all the nation of Israel.
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30Then said the king unto his servants, Carry me away out of the battle; for I am very weak. And immediately his servants took him away out of the battle.
31Then got he up upon his second chariot; and being brought back to Jerusalem died, and was buried in his father’s sepulcher.
— 1 Esdras 1:32 —
33These things are written in the book of the stories of the kings of Judah, and every one of the acts that Josiah did, and his glory, and his understanding in the law of the Lord; and the things that he had done before, and the things now recited, are reported in the book of the kings of Israel and Judea.
34And the people took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king instead of Josiah his father when he was twenty and three years old.