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Josi '
ah kept a passover to the LORD in Jerusalem ;
and they killed the passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month .
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He appointed the priests to their offices and encouraged them in the service of the house of the LORD .
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And he said to the Levites who taught all Israel and who were holy to the LORD , "
Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David ,
king of Israel ,
built ;
you need no longer carry it upon your shoulders .
Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel .
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Prepare yourselves according to your fathers '
houses by your divisions ,
following the directions of David king of Israel and the directions of Solomon his son .
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And stand in the holy place according to the groupings of the fathers '
houses of your brethren the lay people ,
and let there be for each a part of a father '
s house of the Levites .
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And kill the passover lamb ,
and sanctify yourselves ,
and prepare for your brethren ,
to do according to the word of the LORD by Moses ."
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Then Josi '
ah contributed to the lay people ,
as passover offerings for all that were present ,
lambs and kids from the flock to the number of thirty thousand ,
and three thousand bulls ;
these were from the king '
s possessions .
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And his princes contributed willingly to the people ,
to the priests ,
and to the Levites .
Hilki '
ah ,
Zechari '
ah ,
and Jehi '
el ,
the chief officers of the house of God ,
gave to the priests for the passover offerings two thousand six hundred lambs and kids and three hundred bulls .
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Conani '
ah also ,
and Shemai '
ah and Nethan '
el his brothers ,
and Hashabi '
ah and Je-i '
el and Jo '
zabad ,
the chiefs of the Levites ,
gave to the Levites for the passover offerings five thousand lambs and kids and five hundred bulls .
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When the service had been prepared for ,
the priests stood in their place ,
and the Levites in their divisions according to the king '
s command .
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And they killed the passover lamb ,
and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received from them while the Levites flayed the victims .
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And they set aside the burnt offerings that they might distribute them according to the groupings of the fathers '
houses of the lay people ,
to offer to the LORD ,
as it is written in the book of Moses .
And so they did with the bulls .
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And they roasted the passover lamb with fire according to the ordinance ;
and they boiled the holy offerings in pots ,
in caldrons ,
and in pans ,
and carried them quickly to all the lay people .
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And afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests ,
because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering the burnt offerings and the fat parts until night ;
so the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests the sons of Aaron .
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The singers ,
the sons of Asaph ,
were in their place according to the command of David ,
and Asaph ,
and Heman ,
and Jedu '
thun the king '
s seer ;
and the gatekeepers were at each gate ;
they did not need to 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 that day ,
to keep the passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD ,
according to the command of King Josi '
ah .
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And the people of Israel who were present kept the passover at that time ,
and the feast of unleavened bread seven days .
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No passover like it had been kept in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet ;
none of the kings of Israel had kept such a passover as was kept by Josi '
ah ,
and the priests and the Levites ,
and all Judah and Israel who were present ,
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem .
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In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josi '
ah this passover was kept .