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2 Chronicles

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Chapter 35

¹Josiah kept a Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem. And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month. ²He appointed the priests to their offices and encouraged them in the service of the house of the LORD. ³And he said to the Levites who taught all Israel and who were holy to the LORD, “Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built. You need no longer carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel. ⁴Prepare yourselves according to your fathers’ houses by your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel and the document of Solomon his son. ⁵And stand in the Holy Place according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of your relatives the people, and let there be for each a part of a father’s house of the Levites. ⁶Slaughter the Passover lamb, and consecrate yourselves, and make preparations for your relatives, to do according to the word of the LORD by Moses.” ⁷Then Josiah contributed to the people, to all who were present, lambs and young goats from the flock, to the number of 30,000, for Passover offerings, and 3,000 bulls; these were from the king’s property. ⁸And his officials contributed willingly to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the chief officers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings 2,600 animals from the flock and 300 bulls. ⁹Conaniah 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 5,000 animals from the flock and 500 bulls. ¹⁰So the service was arranged, and the priests stood in their places and the Levites in their divisions, according to the king’s command. ¹¹And they slaughtered the Passover lamb, and the priests threw the blood that they received from them, and the Levites flayed the animals. ¹²And they removed the burnt offerings that they might give them to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of the people, to offer to the LORD, as it is written in the Book of Moses. And so they did with the bulls. ¹³And they roasted the Passover lamb with fire according to the rule; and they boiled the holy offerings in pots, in caldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the people. ¹⁴Afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the sons of Aaron, were occupied in offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night. So the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron. ¹⁵The 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 each gate. They did not need to depart from their service, for their relatives the Levites prepared for them. ¹⁶So 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 Josiah. ¹⁷The people of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days. ¹⁸No 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 Josiah kept, with the priests and the Levites and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ¹⁹In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah this Passover was kept. ²⁰After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt came up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to engage him in battle. ²¹But he sent envoys to him, saying, “What have we to do with each other, king of Judah? I am not coming against you this day, but against the house with which I am at war. And God has commanded me to hurry. Stop opposing God, who is with me, lest he destroy you.” ²²Nevertheless, Josiah would not turn away from him, but disguised himself in order to fight with him. He did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, but came to fight in the plain of Megiddo. ²³The archers shot King Josiah. And the king said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am badly wounded.” ²⁴So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in his second chariot and brought him to Jerusalem. And he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. ²⁵Jeremiah chanted a lament for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made them an ordinance in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments. ²⁶Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds according to what is written in the Law of the LORD, ²⁷and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.