23 The archers shot King Josiah, and he said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am severely wounded!” (A) 24 So his servants took him out of the war chariot, carried him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem. Then he died, and they buried him in the tomb of his ancestors. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned(B) for Josiah. 25 Jeremiah chanted a dirge(C) over Josiah, and all the male and female singers still speak of Josiah in their dirges today. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Dirges.

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