2Chronicles:35

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* And Josias kept a passover to the Lord his God ; and sacrificed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month . * And he appointed the priests at their charges , and encouraged them for the services of the house of the Lord . * And he told the Levites that were able to act in all Israel , that they should consecrate themselves to the Lord : and they put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built : and the king said , Ye must not carry anything on your shoulders : now then minister to the Lord your God , and to his people Israel . * And prepare yourselves according to the houses of your families , and according to your daily courses , according to the writing of David king of Israel , and the order by the hand of his son Solomon . * And stand ye in the house according to the divisions of the houses of your families for your brethren the sons of the people ; so also let there be for the Levites a division of the house of their family . * And kill ye the passover , and prepare it for your brethren , to do according to the word of the Lord , by the hand of Moses . * And Josias (note :)Or , began by giving (:note ) gave as an offering to the children of the people , sheep , and lambs , and kids of the young of the goats , all for the passover , even for all that were found , in number amounting to thirty thousand , and three thousand calves , these were of the substance of the king . * And his princes gave an offering to the people , and to the priests , and to the Levites : and Chelcias and Zacharias and Jeiel the chief men gave to the priests of the house of God , they even gave for the passover sheep , and lambs , and kids , two thousand six hundred , and three hundred calves . * And Chonenias , and Banaeas , and Samaeas , and Nathanael his brother , and Asabias , and Jeiel , and Jozabad , heads of the Levites , gave an offering to the Levites for the passover , of five thousand sheep and five hundred calves . * And the service was duly ordered , and the priests stood in their place , and the Levites in their divisions , according to the command of the king . * And they slew the passover , and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hand , and the Levites flayed the victims . * And they prepared the whole-burnt-offering to give to them , according to the division by the houses of families , even to the sons of the people , to offer to the Lord , as it is written in the book of Moses . * And thus they did till the morning . And they roasted the passover with fire according to the (note :)Gr . judgement (:note ) ordinance ; and boiled the holy pieces in copper vessels and caldrons , and the feast went on well , and they Gr . ran to quickly served all the children of the people . * And after they had prepared for themselves and for the priests , for the priests were engaged in offering the whole-burnt-offerings and the fat until night , then the Levites prepared for themselves , and for their brethren the sons of Aaron . * And the sons of Asaph the psalm-singers were at their post according to the commands of David , and Asaph , and Æman , and Idithom , the prophets of the king : also , the chiefs and the porters of the several gates ; —it was not for them to stir from the service of the holy things , for their brethren the Levites prepared for them . * So all the service of the Lord was duly ordered and prepared in that day , (note :)Gr . of (:note ) for keeping the passover , and offering the whole-burnt-sacrifices on the altar of the Lord , according to the command of king Josias . * And the children of Israel that were (note :)Gr . found (:note ) present kept the passover at that time , and the feast of unleavened bread seven days . * And there was no passover like it in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet , (note :)Gr . and every (:note ) or any king of Israel : they kept not such a passover as Josias , and the priests , and the Levites , and all Juda and Israel that were present , and the dwellers in Jerusalem , kept to the Lord . * In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias this passover was kept , after all these things that Josias did in the house . (note :)(35:19AA )(:note ) And king Josias burnt Lit . ventriloquists those who had in them a divining spirit , and the wizards , and the images , and the idols , and the sodomites which were in the land of Juda and in Jerusalem , that he might confirm the words of the law that were written in the book which Chelcias the priest found in the house of the Lord . (35:19BA ) There was no king like him before him , who turned to the Lord with all his heart , and all his soul , and all his strength , according to all the law of Moses , and after him there rose up none like him . (35:19CA ) Nevertheless the Lord turned not from the anger of his fierce wrath , wherewith the Lord was greatly angry against Juda , for all the provocations wherewith Manasses provoked him : (35:19DA ) and the Lord said , I will even remove Juda also from my presence , as I have removed Israel , and I have rejected the city which I chose , even Jerusalem , and the house of which I said , My name shall be there . * And Pharao Nechao king of Egypt went up against the king of the Assyrians to the river Euphrates , and king Josias went to meet him . * And he sent messengers to him , saying , What have I to do with thee , O king of Juda ? I am not come to-day to war against thee ; and God has told me to hasten : beware of the God that is with me , lest he destroy thee . * However , Josias turned not his face from him , but strengthened himself to fight against him , and hearkened not to the words of Nechao by the mouth of God , and he came to fight in the plain of Mageddo . * And the archers shot at king Josias ; and the king said to his servants , Take me away , for I am severely wounded . * And his servants lifted him out of the chariot , and put him in the second chariot which he had , and brought him to Jerusalem ; and he died , and was buried with his fathers : and all Juda and Jerusalem lamented over Josias . * And Jeremias (note :)Or , framed a lamentation (:note ) mourned over Josias , and all the chief men and chief women uttered a lamentation over Josias until this day : and they made it an ordinance for Israel , and , behold , it is written in the lamentations . * And the rest of the acts of Josias , and his hope , (note :)Gr . were (:note ) are written in the law of the Lord . * And his acts , the first and the last , behold , they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Juda .

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