2Chronicles:35

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ylt @2Chronicles:35:1 @And Josiah maketh in Jerusalem a passover to Jehovah , and they slaughter the passover-offering on the fourteenth of the first month , ylt @2Chronicles:35:2 @and he stationeth the priests over their charges , and strengtheneth them for the service of the house of Jehovah , ylt @2Chronicles:35:3 @and saith to the Levites -- who are teaching all Israel -- who are sanctified to Jehovah , 'Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon son of David king of Israel built ; it is not to you a burden on the shoulder . 'Now , serve Jehovah your God , and His people Israel , ylt @2Chronicles:35:4 @and prepare , by the house of your fathers , according to your courses , by the writing of David king of Israel , and by the writing of Solomon his son , ylt @2Chronicles:35:5 @and stand in the sanctuary , by the divisions of the house of the fathers of your brethren , sons of the people , and the portion of the house of a father of the Levites , ylt @2Chronicles:35:6 @and slaughter the passover-offering and sanctify yourselves , and prepare for your brethren , to do according to the word of Jehovah by the hand of Moses .' ylt @2Chronicles:35:7 @And Josiah lifteth up to the sons of the people a flock of lambs and young goats , the whole for passover-offerings , for every one who is found , to the number of thirty thousand , and oxen three thousand : these [are ] from the substance of the king . ylt @2Chronicles:35:8 @And his heads , for a willing-offering to the people , to the priests , and to the Levites , have lifted up ; Hilkiah , and Zechariah , and Jehiel , leaders in the house of God , to the priests have given for passover-offerings two thousand and six hundred , and oxen three hundred ; ylt @2Chronicles:35:9 @and Conaniah , and Shemaiah , and Nethaneel , his brethren , and Hashabiah , and Jeiel , and Jozabad , heads of the Levites , have lifted up to the Levites , for passover-offerings , five thousand , and oxen five hundred . ylt @2Chronicles:35:10 @And the service is prepared , and the priests stand on their station , and the Levites on their courses , according to the command of the king , ylt @2Chronicles:35:11 @and they slaughter the passover-offering , and the priests sprinkle out of their hand , and the Levites are striping ; ylt @2Chronicles:35:12 @and they turn aside the burnt-offering , to put them by the divisions of the house of the fathers of the sons of the people , to bring near to Jehovah , as it is written in the book of Moses -- and so to the oxen . ylt @2Chronicles:35:13 @And they cook the passover with fire , according to the ordinance , and the sanctified things they have cooked in pots , and in kettles , and in pans -- for all the sons of the people . ylt @2Chronicles:35:14 @And afterward they have prepared for themselves , and for the priests : for the priests , sons of Aaron , [are ] in the offering up of the burnt-offering and of the fat till night ; and the Levites have prepared for themselves , and for the priests , sons of Aaron . ylt @2Chronicles:35:15 @And the singers , sons of Asaph , [are ] on their station , according to the command of David , and Asaph , and Heman , and Jeduthun seer of the king , and the gate keepers [are ] at gate and gate ; it is not for them to turn aside from off their service , for their brethren the Levites have prepared for them . ylt @2Chronicles:35:16 @And all the service of Jehovah is prepared on that day , to keep the passover , and to cause to ascend burnt-offering upon the altar of Jehovah , according to the command of king Josiah . ylt @2Chronicles:35:17 @And the sons of Israel who are found make the passover at that time , and the feast of unleavened things , seven days . ylt @2Chronicles:35:18 @And there hath not been made a passover like it in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet , and none of the kings of Israel made such a passover as Josiah hath made , and the priests , and the Levites , and all Judah and Israel who are found , and the inhabitants of Jerusalem . ylt @2Chronicles:35:19 @In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah hath this passover been made . ylt @2Chronicles:35:20 @After all this , when Josiah hath prepared the house , come up hath Necho king of Egypt , to fight against Carchemish by Phrat , and Josiah goeth forth to meet him ; ylt @2Chronicles:35:21 @and he sendeth unto him messengers , saying , 'What -- to me and to thee , O king of Judah ? not against thee do I come to-day , but unto the house with which I have war , and God said to haste me ; cease for thee from God who [is ] with me , and He doth not destroy thee .' ylt @2Chronicles:35:22 @And Josiah hath not turned round his face from him , but to fight against him hath disguised himself , and hath not hearkened unto the words of Necho , from the mouth of God , and cometh in to fight in the valley of Megiddo ; ylt @2Chronicles:35:23 @and the archers shoot at king Josiah , and the king saith to his servants , 'Remove me , for I have become very sick .' ylt @2Chronicles:35:24 @And his servants remove him from the chariot , and cause him to ride on the second chariot that he hath , and cause him to go to Jerusalem , and he dieth , and is buried in the graves of his fathers , and all Judah and Jerusalem are mourning for Josiah , ylt @2Chronicles:35:25 @and Jeremiah lamenteth for Josiah , and all the singers and the songstresses speak in their lamentations of Josiah unto this day , and set them for a statute on Israel , and lo , they are written beside the lamentations . ylt @2Chronicles:35:26 @And the rest of the matters of Josiah , and his kind acts , according as it is written in the law of Jehovah , ylt @2Chronicles:35:27 @even his matters , the first and the last , lo , they are written on the book of the kings of Israel and Judah .

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