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609 BC - 593 BC

Pharaoh Necho II ruled Egypt.

Source:(NG, Aug., 1974, p.180)(WSJ, 4/17/97, p.A20)

The biblical king Josiah was slain on Har (Mt.) Megiddo (root of Armageddon) in the 7th century, when he was betrayed by Pharaoh Necho whom he had come to stop from going to war on the side of the Assyrians against the Babylonians.