2 Chronicles 35:24

“And his servants therefore took him out of that chariot, etc.] Dead, and had him to Jerusalem, and buried him; (See Gill on “<122330>2 Kings 23:30”), and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah; he having been so good a king, so tender of them, and such an happy instrument in restoring the true religion, and the service of God; this was the sense of the generality of them, who were sincere in their mourning; but it is not improbable that those who were inclined to idolatry were secretly glad, though they dissembled mourning with the rest.”

“took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot--the carriage he had for ordinary use, and which would be more comfortable for the royal sufferer than the war chariot. The death of this good king was the subject of universal and lasting regret.”

“The fate of Josiah was unprecedented. No king of Judah had, up to this time, fallen in battle. None had left his land at the mercy of a foreign conqueror. Hence, the extraordinary character of the mourning (compare Zechariah 12:11-14). return to 'Top of Page'”

“the second: Gen 41:43 they: Kg2 23:30 died: Psa 36:6; Ecc 8:14, Ecc 9:1, Ecc 9:2 in one of the: or, among the, Ch2 34:28 Judah: Zac 12:11 2 Chronicles 35:25”