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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...with Josiah; the appearance of the Hebrew army at Megiddo, however, brought on a battle, in which the king of Judah was so desperately wounded by arrows that his attendants removed him from the war-chariot, and placed him in another, in which he was taken to Jerusalem, where he died (B. C. about 680). (8) Character. Josiah possessed many estimable qualities. No king that reigned in Israel was ever more deeply lamented by all his subjects than he; and we are told that the prophet, Jeremiah, composed on the occasion an elegiac ode, which was long preserved among the people, but which is not now in existence (2 Kings xxiii 12937; 2 Chron. xxxv:20-27). 2. Son of Zephaniah, whose house Zechariah was commanded to make the assembling place of the chief men of the captivity when Joshua, the high-priest, was crowned (Zech. vi: io), B. C. 519 JOSIAS (jo-si'as), (Gr. 'luirlas, ee-oh-se'os), the Grecized form of Josiah, king of Judah, found Matt. i: io, II. JOSIBIAH (jos-i-bi'ah), (Heb. n?, yo-skib yaw', i. e. Jos'uibiah, dweller with Jehovah), father of Jehu, a descendant of that branch of the Simeonite tribe of which Shimei was founder, and which later was the most numerous (I Chron. iv:35), B. C. before 711. JOSIPHIAH (jos'i-phi'ah), (Heb. r, I3#1 yoshib-yaiv', dweller with Jehovah), an ancestor, perhaps father, of Shelomith, who returned from the captivity with Ezra (Ezra viii: lo), B. C. about 457 JOT (j6t), English form of Iota, ISna, ee-oh'ta, the Greek letter so called, the same in power and place as the English i. (See Iota.) JOTBAH (jdt'bah), (Heb. n?, yot-baw', pleasantness), given as the native place of Meshullemeth, queen of Manasseh, and mother of Amon, King of Jadah (2 Kings xxi: io). The place is not elsewhere mentioned, but it is commonly identified with