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2 Chr 35:1

& Then Josiah celebrated the Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and they slaughtered the Passover {animals} on the fourteenth {day} of the first month.

2 Chr 35:2

& He set the priests in their offices and encouraged them in the service of the house of the LORD.

2 Chr 35:3

& He also said to the Levites who taught all Israel {and} who were holy to the LORD, "Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built; it will be a burden on {your} shoulders no longer. Now serve the LORD your God and His people Israel.

2 Chr 35:4

& ~"Prepare {yourselves} by your fathers' households in your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel and according to the writing of his son Solomon.

2 Chr 35:5

& ~"Moreover, stand in the holy place according to the sections of the fathers' households of your brethren the lay people, and according to the Levites, by division of a father's household.

2 Chr 35:6

& ~"Now slaughter the Passover {animals,} sanctify yourselves and prepare for your brethren to do according to the word of the LORD by Moses."

2 Chr 35:7

& Josiah contributed to the lay people, to all who were present, flocks of lambs and young goats, all for the Passover offerings, numbering 30,000 plus 3,000 bulls; these were from the king's possessions.

2 Chr 35:8

& His officers also contributed a freewill offering to the people, the priests and the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the officials of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings 2,600 {from the flocks} and 300 bulls.

2 Chr 35:9

& Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the officers of the Levites, contributed to the Levites for the Passover offerings 5,000 {from the flocks} and 500 bulls.

2 Chr 35:10

& So the service was prepared, and the priests stood at their stations and the Levites by their divisions according to the king's command.

2 Chr 35:11

& They slaughtered the Passover {animals,} and while the priests sprinkled the blood {received} from their hand, the Levites skinned {them.}

2 Chr 35:12

& Then they removed the burnt offerings that {they} might give them to the sections of the fathers' households of the lay people to present to the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. {They did} this also with the bulls.

2 Chr 35:13

& So they roasted the Passover {animals} on the fire according to the ordinance, and they boiled the holy things in pots, in kettles, in pans, and carried {them} speedily to all the lay people.

2 Chr 35:14

& Afterwards they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the sons of Aaron, {were} offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.

2 Chr 35:15

& The singers, the sons of Asaph, {were} also at their stations according to the command of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the gatekeepers at each gate did not have to depart from their service, because the Levites their brethren prepared for them.

2 Chr 35:16

& So all the service of the LORD was prepared on that day to celebrate the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD according to the command of King Josiah.

2 Chr 35:17

& Thus the sons of Israel who were present celebrated the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days.

2 Chr 35:18

& There had not been celebrated a Passover like it in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet; nor had any of the kings of Israel celebrated such a Passover as Josiah did with the priests, the Levites, all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

2 Chr 35:19

& In the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign this Passover was celebrated.

2 Chr 35:20

& After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, Neco king of Egypt came up to make war at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to engage him.

2 Chr 35:21

& But Neco sent messengers to him, saying, "What have we to do with each other, O King of Judah? {I am} not {coming} against you today but against the house with which I am at war, and God has ordered me to hurry. Stop for your own sake from {interfering with} God who is with me, so that He will not destroy you."

2 Chr 35:22

& However, Josiah would not turn away from him, but disguised himself in order to make war with him; nor did he listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, but came to make war on the plain of Megiddo.

2 Chr 35:23

& The archers shot King Josiah, and the king said to his servants, "Take me away, for I am badly wounded."

2 Chr 35:24

& So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in the second chariot which he had, and brought him to Jerusalem where he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

2 Chr 35:25

& Then Jeremiah chanted a lament for Josiah. And all the male and female singers speak about Josiah in their lamentations to this day. And they made them an ordinance in Israel; behold, they are also written in the Lamentations.

2 Chr 35:26

& Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and his deeds of devotion as written in the law of the LORD,

2 Chr 35:27

& and his acts, first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.