Editing Necho II (section)

====Second campaign====
[[File:Battle of Carchemish.png|thumb|In 605 BC, an Egyptian force fought the Babylonians at [[Battle of Carchemish]], helped by the remnants of the army of the former Assyria, but this was met with defeat.]]
The Babylonian king was planning on reasserting his power in Syria. In 609 BC, King [[Nabopolassar]] captured [[Kummuh|Kumukh]], which cut off the Egyptian army, then based at Carchemish. Necho responded the following year by retaking Kumukh after a [[Siege of Kimuhu|four-month siege]], and executed the Babylonian garrison. Nabopolassar gathered another army, which camped at [[Qurumati]] on the Euphrates. However, Nabopolassar's poor health forced him to return to [[Babylon]] in 605 BC. In response, in 606 BC the Egyptians [[Battle of Quramati|attacked]] the leaderless Babylonians (probably then led by the crown prince Nebuchadnezzar) who fled their position.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}

At this point, the aged Nabopolassar passed command of the army to his son [[Nebuchadnezzar II]], who led them to a decisive victory over the Egyptians at [[Battle of Carchemish|Carchemish]] in 605 BC, and pursued the fleeing survivors to [[Hamath]]. Necho's dream of restoring the Egyptian Empire in the Middle East as had occurred under the [[New Kingdom of Egypt|New Kingdom]] was destroyed as Nebuchadnezzar conquered Egyptian territory from the Euphrates to the [[Brook of Egypt]] ([[Book of Jeremiah|Jeremiah]] 46:2; [[Books of Kings|2 Kings]] 23:29) down to [[Judea]]. Although Nebuchadnezzar spent many years in his new conquests on continuous pacification campaigns, Necho was unable to recover any significant part of his lost territories. For example, when [[Ashkalon]] rose in revolt, despite repeated pleas the Egyptians sent no help, and were barely able to repel a [[Battle of Migdol (601 BC)|Babylonian attack]] on their eastern border in 601 BC. When he did repel the Babylonian attack, Necho managed to capture Gaza while pursuing the enemy. Necho turned his attention in his remaining years to forging relationships with new allies: the [[Caria]]ns, and further to the west, the [[ancient Greeks|Greeks]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}