2 Chronicles 35:24
His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
This verse closes Josiah's effort to establish the faith of Judah in God by holding a great Passover feast in harmony with the book of the law. He continued to reign for more than ten years after that Passover, and died at thirty-nine in battle with the forces of Egypt. Wounded by archers in battle, he was taken out of his chariot and put in his second chariot, brought to Jerusalem where he died, and buried in one of the tombs of his fathers among his ancestors.
All Judah and Jerusalem mourned him in a national grief, in which Jeremiah lamented for him and the singing men and singing women spoke of him in lamentations. Those lamentations were made a standing ordinance in Israel and were written down in the lamentations as an enduring recorded practice. His wounding and death followed his refusal to heed the warning not to fight Necho, so the verse marks the consequence of choosing his own course against God's word, from which God did not shield him.
His zeal in this work was acceptable to God, yet it could not atone for the sins of past generations. The piety displayed by his followers did not change the heart of many who stubbornly refused to turn from idolatry to the worship of the true God. Although no king before him or after him turned to the Lord with all his heart and soul and might according to all the law of Moses, the Lord did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath because of all the provocations of Manasseh. The utter destruction of Jerusalem and captivity to Babylon soon followed, so that the people would learn there the lessons they had refused to learn under more favorable circumstances.