2Chronicles:35-36

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:1 @ And Josiah kept a Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem. And they killed the passover lamb on the fourteenth of the first month.

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:2 @ And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD.

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:3 @ And he said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built. [It shall] not [be] a burden on your shoulders. And serve the LORD your God and His people Israel,

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:4 @ and prepare by the houses of your fathers, according to your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:5 @ And stand in the holy [place] according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brothers, the sons of the people, and the division of the families of the Levites.

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:6 @ And kill the passover lamb, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brothers so that [they] may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:7 @ And Josiah gave to the people from the flock, lambs and kids, all for the Passover offerings, for all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand oxen. These [were] from what the king owned.

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:8 @ And his rulers offered to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand, six hundred [sheep], and three hundred oxen.

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:9 @ And Conaniah, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for Passover offerings five thousand [sheep] and five hundred oxen.

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:10 @ And the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions, according to the king's command.

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:11 @ And they killed the passover lamb, and the priests sprinkled from their hands, and the Levites skinned [them].

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:12 @ And they removed the burnt offerings so that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer to the LORD, as [it is] written in the book of Moses; and so they did to the oxen.

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:13 @ And they roasted the passover lamb with fire according to the law. But the holy [offerings] they boiled in pots, and in kettles, and in pans, and carried to all the sons of the people.

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:14 @ And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron were offering up the burnt offerings and the fat until nightfall. And the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:15 @ And the singers, the sons of Asaph [were] in their place, according to the command of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun, the king's seer. And the gatekeepers [were] at every gate. It was not for them to depart from their service; for their brothers the Levites prepared for them.

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:16 @ And all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, according to the command of king Josiah.

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:17 @ And the sons of Israel present kept the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened [Bread] seven days.

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:18 @ And there was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet. Yea, none of the kings of Israel kept such a Passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were found, and the people of Jerusalem.

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:19 @ This Passover was kept in the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah.

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:20 @ After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates. And Josiah went out against him.

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:21 @ But he sent messengers to him, saying, What have I to do with you, king of Judah? [I do] not [come] against you today, but against the house [with which] I have war. For God commanded me to make haste. You must cease from [opposing] God, who [is] with me, so that He does not destroy you.

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:22 @ But Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself so that he might fight with him. And he did not listen to the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:23 @ And the archers shot at king Josiah. And the king said to his servants, Take me away, for I am grievously wounded.

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:24 @ And his servants 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 tombs of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:25 @ And Jeremiah mourned for Josiah. And all the singing men and the singing women have spoken of Josiah in their lamentations until this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel. And behold, they [are] written in the Lamentations.

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:26 @ And the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, [are] according as it [is] written in the law of the LORD,

mkjv@2Chronicles:35:27 @ and his deeds, first and last, behold, they [are] written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

mkjv@2Chronicles:36:1 @ And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's place in Jerusalem.

mkjv@2Chronicles:36:2 @ Jehoahaz [was] twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

mkjv@2Chronicles:36:3 @ And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and laid a fine of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold on the land.

mkjv@2Chronicles:36:4 @ And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother and carried him to Egypt.

mkjv@2Chronicles:36:5 @ Jehoiakim [was] twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And he did the evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

mkjv@2Chronicles:36:6 @ Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him and bound him in chains to carry him to Babylon.

mkjv@2Chronicles:36:7 @ And Nebuchadnezzar carried away [some] of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.

mkjv@2Chronicles:36:8 @ And the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they [are] written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Chronicles:36:9 @ Jehoiachin [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. And he did the evil in the sight of the LORD.

mkjv@2Chronicles:36:10 @ And when the year had ended, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable vessels of the house of the LORD. And he made his brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

mkjv@2Chronicles:36:11 @ Zedekiah [was] twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.

mkjv@2Chronicles:36:12 @ And he did the evil in the sight of the LORD his God. He was not humbled before Jeremiah the prophet, from the mouth of the LORD.

mkjv@2Chronicles:36:13 @ And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart from turning to the LORD God of Israel.

mkjv@2Chronicles:36:14 @ Also all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the LORD which He had made holy in Jerusalem.

mkjv@2Chronicles:36:15 @ And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by His messengers, rising up early and sending, for He had pity on His people and on His dwelling-place.

mkjv@2Chronicles:36:16 @ But they mocked the messengers of God and despised His words, and ill-treated His prophets until the wrath of the LORD arose against His people, until [there was] no healing.

mkjv@2Chronicles:36:17 @ And He caused the king of the Chaldeans to go up against them. And he killed their choice ones by the sword in the house of their holy place, and had no pity on the young man and the virgin, the old man and the very aged; He gave all into his hand.

mkjv@2Chronicles:36:18 @ And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his rulers, he brought all [these] to Babylon.

mkjv@2Chronicles:36:19 @ And they burned the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all the palaces of it with fire, and destroyed all its beautiful vessels.

mkjv@2Chronicles:36:20 @ And the ones who had escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon, where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia,

mkjv@2Chronicles:36:21 @ to fulfill the word of the LORD in the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths. All the days of the desolation it kept the sabbath, to the full measure of seventy years.

mkjv@2Chronicles:36:22 @ And in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, so that the word of the LORD in the mouth of Jeremiah might be done, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also in writing, saying,

mkjv@2Chronicles:36:23 @ So says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth have been given to me by the LORD God. And He has commanded me to build Him a house in Jerusalem, which [is] in Judah. Who [is among you of all His people? May the LORD his God [be] with him, and let him go up.

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