took him away out of the battle.

1Esdr 1:31
Then gat he up upon his second chariot; and being brought
back to Jerusalem died, and was buried in his father's sepulchre.

1Esdr 1:32
And in all Jewry they mourned for Josias, yea, Jeremy the prophet
lamented for Josias, 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.

1Esdr 1:33
These things are written in the book of the stories of the
kings of Judah, and every one of the acts that Josias 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.

1Esdr 1:34
And the people took Joachaz the son of Josias, and made him king
instead of Josias his father, when he was twenty and three years old.

1Esdr 1:35
And he reigned in Judea and in Jerusalem three months: and
then the king of Egypt deposed him from reigning in Jerusalem.

1Esdr 1:36
And he set a tax upon the land of an hundred talents
of silver and one talent of gold.