The building was started in the second month in the fourth year of his rule.

And all the men of Israel came together to the king at the feast in the seventh month.

And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, full of joy and glad in their hearts, because of all the good which the Lord had done to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.

So they came together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the rule of Asa.

In the first year of his rule, in the first month, opening the doors of the Lord's house, he made them strong.

On the first day of the first month the work of making the house holy was started, and on the eighth day they came to the covered way of the Lord; in eight days they made the Lord's house holy, and on the sixteenth day of the first month the work was done.

For the king, after discussion with his chiefs and all the body of the people in Jerusalem, had made a decision to keep the Passover in the second month.

So a very great number of people came together at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month.

Then on the fourteenth day of the second month they put the Passover lambs to death: and the priests and the Levites were shamed, and made themselves holy and took burned offerings into the house of the Lord.

The first store of things was put down in the third month, and in the seventh month the masses were complete.

And Josiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem; on the fourteenth day of the first month they put the Passover lamb to death.