2Chronicles:35:1-19
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Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem :
and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month .
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And he set the priests in their charges ,
and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD ,
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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 ,
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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So the service was prepared ,
and the priests stood in their place ,
and the Levites in their courses ,
according to the king '
s commandment .
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And they killed the passover ,
and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands ,
and the Levites flayed them .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time ,
and the feast of unleavened bread seven days .
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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 .
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In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept .