2Chronicles:35

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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 . * And he set the priests in their charges and confirmed them in the ministry of the house of the LORD * and said unto the Levites that taught all Israel , who were holy unto the LORD , Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon , the son of David , king of Israel , built , that ye not carry it any longer upon your shoulders ; serve now the LORD your God and his people Israel * 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 . * And stand in the sanctuary 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * And his princes gave willingly unto the people , to the priests , and to the Levites . Hilkiah , Zechariah , and Jehiel , rulers of the house of God , gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand six hundred [sheep ] and three hundred oxen . * Conaniah , likewise , and Shemaiah and Nethaneel , his brethren , and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad , princes of the Levites , gave unto the Levites for the sacrifices of the passover five thousand [sheep ], and five hundred oxen . * So the service was prepared , and the priests stood in their place , and the Levites , likewise , in their courses , according to the king 's commandment . * And they killed the passover , and the priests sprinkled [the blood taken ] from the hands of the Levites [who ] flayed [them ]. * And they took away [part of the animals that they had ] for the burnt offerings , that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people , for them to offer unto the LORD , as [it is ] written in the book of Moses . And [they did ], likewise , with the oxen . * And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance , but that which had been sanctified , they cooked in pots and in caldrons and in pans and divided [them ] speedily among all the people . * And afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests because the priests , the sons of Aaron , were occupied in the sacrifice of the burnt offerings and the fat until night ; therefore , the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests , the sons of Aaron . * Likewise , 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 ; it was not necessary for them to depart from their ministry , for their brethren , the Levites , prepared for them . * So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day , to keep the passover and to sacrifice the burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD , according to the commandment of King Josiah . * And the sons of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time and the solemn feast of unleavened bread for seven days . * And there was no passover like unto 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 that were present , together with all the inhabitants of Jerusalem . * In the year eighteen of the reign of Josiah , this passover was kept . * After all this , when Josiah had prepared the house , Necho , king of Egypt , came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates ; and Josiah went out against him . * But he sent ambassadors to him , saying , What have I to do with thee , thou king of Judah ? [I do ] not [come ] against thee this day , but against the house that makes war with me , for God commanded me to make haste . Forbear from [meddling with ] God , who [is ] with me , that he not destroy thee . * Nevertheless , Josiah would not turn his face from him , but disguised himself , that he might fight with him , and did not hearken unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God , and came to fight him in the valley of Megiddo . * And the archers shot King Josiah , and the king said to his servants , Take me away , for I am sore wounded . * His servants , therefore , took him out of that chariot and put him in the second chariot that he had ; and they brought him to Jerusalem , and he died and was buried in the sepulchres of his fathers . And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah . * And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah ; and all the singing men and the singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day and made them an ordinance in Israel , which [are ] written in the lamentations . * Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and his mercy , according to [that which was ] written in the law of the LORD , * and his deeds , first and last , behold , they [are ] written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah .:

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