2CH-35:1 Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in

Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day]

of the first month.

2CH-35:2 And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged

them to the service of the house of the LORD,

2CH-35:3 And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which

were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which

Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; [it shall]

not [be] a burden upon [your] shoulders: serve now the LORD your

God, and his people Israel,

2CH-35:4 And prepare [yourselves] by the houses of your fathers,

after your courses, according to the writing of David king of

Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.

2CH-35:5 And stand in the holy [place] according to the

divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the

people, and [after] the division of the families of the Levites.

2CH-35:6 So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and

prepare your brethren, that [they] may do according to the word

of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

2CH-35:7 And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and

kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present,

to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks:

these [were] of the king's substance.

2CH-35:8 And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the

priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel,

rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the

passover offerings two thousand and six hundred [small cattle],

and three hundred oxen.

2CH-35:9 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren,

 and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave

unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand [small

cattle], and five hundred oxen.

2CH-35:10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in

their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the

king's commandment.

2CH-35:11 And they killed the passover, and the priests

sprinkled [the blood] from their hands, and the Levites flayed

[them].

2CH-35:12 And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might

give according to the divisions of the families of the people,

to offer unto the LORD, as [it is] written in the book of Moses.

And so [did they] with the oxen.

2CH-35:13 And they roasted the passover with fire according to

the ordinance: but the [other] holy [offerings] sod they in pots,

 and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided [them] speedily among

all the people.

2CH-35:14 And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for

the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron [were busied]

in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night;

therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the

priests the sons of Aaron.

2CH-35:15 And the singers the sons of Asaph [were] in their

place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and

Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters [waited] at

every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their

brethren the Levites prepared for them.

2CH-35:16 So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same

day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the

altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

2CH-35:17 And the children of Israel that were present kept the

passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven

days.

2CH-35:18 And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel

from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings

of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests,

and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and

the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

2CH-35:19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this

passover kept.

2CH-35:20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple,

Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by

Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.

2CH-35:21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to

do with thee, thou king of Judah? [I come] not against thee this

day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God

commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from [meddling with]

God, who [is] with me, that he destroy thee not.

2CH-35:22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him,

but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and

hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and

came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

2CH-35:23 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said

to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.

2CH-35:24 His servants therefore took him out of that chariot,

and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought

him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in [one of] the

sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned

for Josiah.

2CH-35:25 And Jeremiah 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: and, behold,

they [are] written in the lamentations.

2CH-35:26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness,

according to [that which was] written in the law of the LORD,

2CH-35:27 And his deeds, first and last, behold, they [are]

written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. 

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