TIBERIAS TO NAPOLOSE. 257 
Here also it M^as that Josiah, king of Judah, ^^.^^' 
fought in disguise against Necho, king of ' > 
Egypt, and fell by the arrows of his antagonist *. 
So great were the lamentations for his death, 
that the monrning for Josiah^ became an ordi- 
nance in hraeir The "• great mourning in Jeru- 
salem,'' foretold by Zechariah'^, is said to be as 
the lamentations in the Plain of Esdraelon, or, 
according to the language of the Prophet, " as 
the mourning of Hadadrimnion in the Valley of 
Megiddon. Josephus often mentions this very 
remarkable part of the Holy Land^, and always 
under the appellation of " The Great Plain^."' 
The supplies that Vespasian sent to the people 
of Sepphoris are said to have been reviewed in 
the great plain, prior to their distribution into 
two divisions ; the infantry being quartered 
within the city, and the cavalry encamped upon 
the plain. Under the same name it is also 
(5) 2 Kiits^s, xxiii. 29. 
(6) " And all Jtcdah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. And t/er*- 
»?ifa/t lamented for Josiah; and all the singing-men and the singing- 
women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made 
them an ordinance in Israel." 2 Chron. xxxv. 24, 25. 
(T) Zeckar. xii. 11. 
(8) Josephus, lib. iii. de Bell. c. 2, & 3. Id. lib. v. Antiq- <^- 1- 
Lib. viii. Antiq. c. 2. &c. &c. 
(9) Tfl faiya, ireS/aw. 
