The Second Book of Chronicles (WEB)
35: 1Josiah kept a Passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem: and they killed the Passover on the
fourteenth day of the first month. 35:2He set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them to the
service of the house of Yahweh. 35:3He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to
Yahweh, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build;
there shall no more be a burden on your shoulders: now serve Yahweh your God, and his people
Israel. 35:4Prepare yourselves after your fathers' houses by your courses, according to the writing of
David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son. 35:5Stand in the holy place
according to the divisions of the fathers' houses of your brothers the children of the people, and let
there be for each a portion of a fathers' house of the Levites. 35:6Kill the Passover, and sanctify
yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the word of Yahweh by Moses.
35:7Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all of them for the
Passover-offerings, to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand
bulls: these were of the king's substance. 35:8His princes gave for a freewill- offering to the people,
to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God,
gave to the priests for the Passover-offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three
hundred oxen. 35:9Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and
Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover-offerings five
thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen. 35:10So the service was prepared, and the priests stood
in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king's commandment. 35:11They
killed the Passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received of their hand, and the
Levites flayed them. 35:12They removed the burnt offerings, that they might give them according to
the divisions of the fathers' houses of the children of the people, to offer to Yahweh, as it is
written in the book of Moses. So did they with the oxen. 35:13They roasted the Passover with fire
according to the ordinance: and the holy offerings boiled they in pots, and in caldrons, and in
pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of the people. 35:14Afterward they prepared for
themselves, and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering the
burnt offerings and the fat until night: therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the
priests the sons of Aaron. 35:15The 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
were at every gate: they didn't need to depart from their service; for their brothers the Levites
prepared for them. 35:16So all the service of Yahweh was prepared the same day, to keep the
Passover, and to offer burnt-offerings on the altar of Yahweh, according to the commandment of
king Josiah. 35:17The children of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the
feast of unleavened bread seven days. 35:18There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the
days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah
kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem. 35:19In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this Passover kept.
35:20After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight
against Carchemish by the Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him. 35:21But he sent
ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against
you this day, but against the house with which I have war; and God has commanded me to make
haste: forbear you from meddling with God, who is with me, that he not destroy you.
35:22Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might
fight with him, and didn't listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in
the valley of Megiddo. 35:23The archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have
me away; for I am sore wounded. 35:24So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in
the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the
tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. 35:25Jeremiah lamented for
Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this
day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
35:26Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds, according to that which is written in the
law of Yahweh, 35:27and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of
Israel and Judah.
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