After Sennacherib's fall Hezekiah gained possession of it, but when Josiah was slain by Pharaoh Necho, the latter took it away.

Another canal probably incorporating a portion of the first was constructed under the reign of Necho II and completed by Darius.

Herodotus mentions that the Egyptian pharaoh Necho II ( 610 – 595 BC ) built triremes on the Nile, for service in the Mediterranean, and in the Red Sea, but this reference is disputed by modern historians, and attributed to a confusion, since " triērēs " was by the 5th century used in the generic sense of " warship ", regardless its type.

A final victory was achieved at Carchemish in 605 BC, which included also defeating the Egyptian Pharaoh Necho II who had belatetly tried to aid Egypt's former masters.

Nabopolassar was intent on annexing the western provinces of Syria from Necho II ( who was still hoping to restore Assyrian power ), and to this end dispatched his son westward with a large army.

According to the Middle Irish language synthetic history Lebor Gabála Érenn she was the daughter of Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt.

It was here that Nebuchadnezzar had his headquarters, in his campaign against Jerusalem, and here also that Necho fixed his camp after he had routed Josiah's army at Megiddo ( 2 Kings 23: 29-35 ; 25: 6, 20, 21 ; Jer.

Necho II ( sometimes Nekau ) was a king of the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt ( 610 BC – 595 BC ).

The Book of Chronicles gives a lengthier account and 2 Chronicles 35: 20 states that when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against the Babylonians at Carchemish on the Euphrates River and that King Josiah was fatally wounded by an Egyptian archer.

According to the Book of Jeremiah in the summer of 605 BC Carchemish was the site of an important battle was fought by the Babylonian army of Nebuchadrezzar II and that of Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt.

The Egyptologist Donald B. Redford observed that although Necho II was " a man of action from the start, and endowed with an imagination perhaps beyond that of his contemporaries, Necho had the misfortune to foster the impression of being a failure.

Necho II was the son of Psammetichus I by his Great Royal Wife Mehtenweskhet.

Upon his ascension, Necho was faced with the chaos created by the raids of the Cimmerians and the Scythians, who had not only ravaged Asia west of the Euphrates, but had also helped the Babylonians shatter the Assyrian Empire.

Although Nebuchadrezzar spent many years in his new conquests on continuous pacification campaigns, Necho was unable to recover any significant part of his lost territories.

It was in connection with this new activity that Necho founded a new city of Per-Temu Tjeku which translates as ' The House of Atum of Tjeku ' at the site now known as Tell el-Maskhuta, about 15 km west of Ismailia.

Necho II died in 595 BC and was succeeded by his son, Psamtik II, as the next pharaoh of Egypt.

Necho Allen discovered coal in 1799, but it was not until 1814 that any actual mining took place.

Pottsville's anthracite coal history began in 1790 when it was discovered by hunter Necho Allen.

All of the vanquished leaders save one were sent to Nineveh, only Necho I the native Egyptian Prince of Sais, convinced the Assyrians of his loyalty and was sent back to become the Assyrian puppet Pharaoh of Egypt.

The Egyptian army of Pharaoh Necho II was delayed at Megiddo by the forces of King Josiah of Judah.

On Josiah's death, Jehoiakim's younger brother Jehoahaz ( or Shallum ) was proclaimed king, but after three months pharaoh Necho II deposed him and replaced him with the eldest son, Eliakim, who adopted the name Jehoiakim and became king at the age of twenty-five.

Jehoiakim was installed as king of Judah by pharaoh Necho II in 608 BC, who deposed his younger brother Jehoahaz after a reign of only three months and took him to Egypt, where he died.

The Book of Kings states that Necho met King Josiah of the Kingdom of Judah at Megiddo and killed him () ( see Battle of Megiddo ( 609 BC )).

* 609 BC: Jerusalem becomes part of the Empire of the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt after Josiah of Judah is killed by the army of Pharaoh Necho II at the Battle of Megiddo ( 609 BC ).

The Books of Kings merely state that Necho II met Josiah at Megiddo and killed him.

According to historical records, Necho was killed by an invading Kushite force in 664 BC under Tantamani for being an ally of Assyria.

Necho I, the Assyrians ' representative, was killed in Tantamani's campaign.

At some point during his Syrian campaign, Necho II initiated but never completed the ambitious project of cutting a navigable canal from the Pelusiac branch of the Nile to the Red Sea.

However, according to rabbinical accounts, Necho did not know how the mechanism worked and so accidentally struck himself with one of the lions causing him to become lame ; Nebuchadnezzar, into whose possession the throne subsequently came, shared a similar fate.

These sailors and earlier explorers of the area such as those sponsored by Necho II were in direct or indirect contact with trading centers in Egypt and elsewhere which would certainly facilitate the spread of the stories of these real werewolf-like creatures.

Necho soon captured Kadesh on the Orontes and moved forward, joining forces with Ashur-uballit and together they crossed the Euphrates and laid siege to Harran.

On his return march, he found that the Judeans had selected Jehoahaz to succeed his father Josiah, whom Necho deposed and replaced with Jehoiakim.

Necho turned his attention in his remaining years to forging relationships with new allies: the Carians, and further to the west, the Greeks.

In late colonial times, the river became an increasingly important transportation corridor with the discovery of anthracite coal by Necho Allen in its upper reaches in the mountains.

(, ) Necho then joined forces with the Assyrian Ashur-uballit II and together they crossed the Euphrates and lay siege to Harran.

() Necho deposed Jehoahaz, who had been king for only three months, and replaced him with his older brother, Jehoiakim.

This Battle of Megiddo is recorded as having taken place in 609 BC with Necho II of Egypt leading his army to Carchemish to fight with his allies the Assyrians against the Babylonians at Carchemish in northern Syria.

Immediately to the south of Bubastis were the allotments of land with which Psammetichus rewarded the services of his Ionian and Carian mercenaries ; and on the northern side of the city commenced the canal which Pharaoh Necho II began ( but never finished ) to go between the Nile and the Red Sea.

King Josiah of Judah allied himself with Babylon and tried to block the way of the forces of Egypt under Pharaoh Necho II.

Pharaoh Necho marched on together with Ashur-uballit II, to besiege Harran.

However, this stela is now believed to refer instead to a second later Saite king called Tefnakht II from the late Nubian era because it is almost similar in style and format to a newly revealed donation stela — from a private collection — which is dated to Year 2 of Necho I's reign.