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And Josias held the feast of the passover in Jerusalem unto his Lord ,
and offered the passover the fourteenth day of the first month ;
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Having set the priests according to their daily courses ,
being arrayed in long garments ,
in the temple of the Lord .
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And he spake unto the Levites ,
the holy ministers of Israel ,
that they should hallow themselves unto the Lord ,
to set the holy ark of the Lord in the house that king Solomon the son of David had built :
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And said ,
Ye shall no more bear the ark upon your shoulders :
now therefore serve the Lord your God ,
and minister unto his people Israel ,
and prepare you after your families and kindreds ,
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According as David the king of Israel prescribed ,
and according to the magnificence of Solomon his son :
and standing in the temple according to the several dignity of the families of you the Levites ,
who minister in the presence of your brethren the children of Israel ,
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Offer the passover in order ,
and make ready the sacrifices for your brethren ,
and keep the passover according to the commandment of the Lord ,
which was given unto Moses .
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And unto the people that was found there Josias gave thirty thousand lambs and kids ,
and three thousand calves :
these things were given of the king '
s allowance ,
according as he promised ,
to the people ,
to the priests ,
and to the Levites .
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And Helkias ,
Zacharias ,
and Syelus ,
the governors of the temple ,
gave to the priests for the passover two thousand and six hundred sheep ,
and three hundred calves .
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And Jeconias ,
and Samaias ,
and Nathanael his brother ,
and Assabias ,
and Ochiel ,
and Joram ,
captains over thousands ,
gave to the Levites for the passover five thousand sheep ,
and seven hundred calves .
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And when these things were done ,
the priests and Levites ,
having the unleavened bread ,
stood in very comely order according to the kindreds ,
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And according to the several dignities of the fathers ,
before the people ,
to offer to the Lord ,
as it is written in the book of Moses :
and thus did they in the morning .
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And they roasted the passover with fire ,
as appertaineth :
as for the sacrifices ,
they sod them in brass pots and pans with a good savour ,
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And set them before all the people :
and afterward they prepared for themselves ,
and for the priests their brethren ,
the sons of Aaron .
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For the priests offered the fat until night :
and the Levites prepared for themselves ,
and the priests their brethren ,
the sons of Aaron .
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The holy singers also ,
the sons of Asaph ,
were in their order ,
according to the appointment of David ,
to wit ,
Asaph ,
Zacharias ,
and Jeduthun ,
who was of the king '
s retinue .
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Moreover the porters were at every gate ;
it was not lawful for any to go from his ordinary service :
for their brethren the Levites prepared for them .
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Thus were the things that belonged to the sacrifices of the Lord accomplished in that day ,
that they might hold the passover ,
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And offer sacrifices upon the altar of the Lord ,
according to the commandment of king Josias .
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So the children of Israel which were present held the passover at that time ,
and the feast of sweet bread seven days .
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And such a passover was not kept in Israel since the time of the prophet Samuel .
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Yea ,
all the kings of Israel held not such a passover as Josias ,
and the priests ,
and the Levites ,
and the Jews ,
held with all Israel that were found dwelling at Jerusalem .
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In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias was this passover kept .
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And the works or Josias were upright before his Lord with an heart full of godliness .
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As for the things that came to pass in his time ,
they were written in former times ,
concerning those that sinned ,
and did wickedly against the Lord above all people and kingdoms ,
and how they grieved him exceedingly ,
so that the words of the Lord rose up against Israel .
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Now after all these acts of Josias it came to pass ,
that Pharaoh the king of Egypt came to raise war at Carchamis upon Euphrates :
and Josias went out against him .
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But the king of Egypt sent to him ,
saying ,
What have I to do with thee ,
O king of Judea ?
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I am not sent out from the Lord God against thee ;
for my war is upon Euphrates :
and now the Lord is with me ,
yea ,
the Lord is with me hasting me forward :
depart from me ,
and be not against the Lord .
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Howbeit Josias did not turn back his chariot from him ,
but undertook to fight with him ,
not regarding the words of the prophet Jeremy spoken by the mouth of the Lord :
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But joined battle with him in the plain of Magiddo ,
and the princes came against king Josias .
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Then said the king unto his servants ,
Carry me away out of the battle ;
for I am very weak .
And immediately his servants took him away out of the battle .
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Then gat he up upon his second chariot ;
and being brought back to Jerusalem died ,
and was buried in his father '
s sepulchre .
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And in all Jewry they mourned for Josias ,
yea ,
Jeremy the prophet lamented for Josias ,
and the chief men with the women made lamentation for him unto this day :
and this was given out for an ordinance to be done continually in all the nation of Israel .
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These things are written in the book of the stories of the kings of Judah ,
and every one of the acts that Josias did ,
and his glory ,
and his understanding in the law of the Lord ,
and the things that he had done before ,
and the things now recited ,
are reported in the book of the kings of Israel and Judea .
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And the people took Joachaz the son of Josias ,
and made him king instead of Josias his father ,
when he was twenty and three years old .
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And he reigned in Judea and in Jerusalem three months :
and then the king of Egypt deposed him from reigning in Jerusalem .
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And he set a tax upon the land of an hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold .
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The king of Egypt also made king Joacim his brother king of Judea and Jerusalem .
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And he bound Joacim and the nobles :
but Zaraces his brother he apprehended ,
and brought him out of Egypt .
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Five and twenty years old was Joacim when he was made king in the land of Judea and Jerusalem ;
and he did evil before the Lord .
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Wherefore against him Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came up ,
and bound him with a chain of brass ,
and carried him into Babylon .
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Nabuchodonosor also took of the holy vessels of the Lord ,
and carried them away ,
and set them in his own temple at Babylon .
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But those things that are recorded of him ,
and of his uncleaness and impiety ,
are written in the chronicles of the kings .
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And Joacim his son reigned in his stead :
he was made king being eighteen years old ;
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And reigned but three months and ten days in Jerusalem ;
and did evil before the Lord .
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So after a year Nabuchodonosor sent and caused him to be brought into Babylon with the holy vessels of the Lord ;
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And made Zedechias king of Judea and Jerusalem ,
when he was one and twenty years old ;
and he reigned eleven years :
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And he did evil also in the sight of the Lord ,
and cared not for the words that were spoken unto him by the prophet Jeremy from the mouth of the Lord .
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And after that king Nabuchodonosor had made him to swear by the name of the Lord ,
he forswore himself ,
and rebelled ;
and hardening his neck ,
his heart ,
he transgressed the laws of the Lord God of Israel .
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The governors also of the people and of the priests did many things against the laws ,
and passed all the pollutions of all nations ,
and defiled the temple of the Lord ,
which was sanctified in Jerusalem .
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Nevertheless the God of their fathers sent by his messenger to call them back ,
because he spared them and his tabernacle also .
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But they had his messengers in derision ;
and ,
look ,
when the Lord spake unto them ,
they made a sport of his prophets :
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So far forth ,
that he ,
being wroth with his people for their great ungodliness ,
commanded the kings of the Chaldees to come up against them ;
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Who slew their young men with the sword ,
yea ,
even within the compass of their holy temple ,
and spared neither young man nor maid ,
old man nor child ,
among them ;
for he delivered all into their hands .
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And they took all the holy vessels of the Lord ,
both great and small ,
with the vessels of the ark of God ,
and the king '
s treasures ,
and carried them away into Babylon .
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As for the house of the Lord ,
they burnt it ,
and brake down the walls of Jerusalem ,
and set fire upon her towers :
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And as for her glorious things ,
they never ceased till they had consumed and brought them all to nought :
and the people that were not slain with the sword he carried unto Babylon :
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Who became servants to him and his children ,
till the Persians reigned ,
to fulfil the word of the Lord spoken by the mouth of Jeremy :
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Until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths ,
the whole time of her desolation shall she rest ,
until the full term of seventy years .
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