2Chronicles:35

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web @2Chronicles:35:1 @Josiah kept a Passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem : and they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month . web @2Chronicles:35:2 @He set the priests in their offices , and encouraged them to the service of the house of Yahweh . web @2Chronicles:35:3 @He 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 built . There shall no more be a burden on your shoulders . Now serve Yahweh your God , and his people Israel . web @2Chronicles:35:4 @Prepare yourselves after your fathers ' houses by your divisions , according to the writing of David king of Israel , and according to the writing of Solomon his son . web @2Chronicles:35:5 @Stand 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 . web @2Chronicles:35:6 @Kill the Passover , and sanctify yourselves , and prepare for your brothers , to do according to the word of Yahweh by Moses ." web @2Chronicles:35:7 @Josiah gave to the children of the people , of the flock , lambs and young goats , 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 . web @2Chronicles:35:8 @His princes gave for a freewill offering to the people , to the priests , and to the Levites . Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel , the rulers of God 's house , gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small livestock , and three hundred head of cattle . web @2Chronicles:35:9 @Conaniah 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 livestock , and five hundred head of cattle . web @2Chronicles:35:10 @So the service was prepared , and the priests stood in their place , and the Levites by their divisions , according to the king 's commandment . web @2Chronicles:35:11 @They killed the Passover , and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received of their hand , and the Levites flayed them . web @2Chronicles:35:12 @They 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 they did with the cattle . web @2Chronicles:35:13 @They 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 . web @2Chronicles:35:14 @Afterward they prepared for themselves , and for the priests , because the priests the sons of Aaron were busy with offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night : therefore the Levites prepared for themselves , and for the priests the sons of Aaron . web @2Chronicles:35:15 @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 were at every gate : they didn 't need to depart from their service ; for their brothers the Levites prepared for them . web @2Chronicles:35:16 @So 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 . web @2Chronicles:35:17 @The children of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time , and the feast of unleavened bread seven days . web @2Chronicles:35:18 @There 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 . web @2Chronicles:35:19 @In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this Passover kept . web @2Chronicles:35:20 @After 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 . web @2Chronicles:35:21 @But 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 . God has commanded me to make haste . Beware that it is God who is with me , that he not destroy you ." web @2Chronicles:35:22 @Nevertheless 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 . web @2Chronicles:35:23 @The archers shot at king Josiah ; and the king said to his servants , "Take me away , because I am seriously wounded !" web @2Chronicles:35:24 @So 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 . web @2Chronicles:35:25 @Jeremiah 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 . web @2Chronicles:35:26 @Now the rest of the acts of Josiah , and his good deeds , according to that which is written in the law of Yahweh , web @2Chronicles:35:27 @and his acts , first and last , behold , they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah .

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