He began to build on the second day in the second month of the fourth year of his reign.

All the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, that is in the seventh month.

Then on the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people to their tents, rejoicing and happy of heart because of the goodness that the Lord had shown to David and to Solomon and to His people Israel.

So they assembled at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.

In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them.

Now they began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they entered the porch of the Lord. Then they consecrated the house of the Lord in eight days, and finished on the sixteenth day of the first month.

For the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had decided to celebrate the Passover in the second month,

Now many people were gathered at Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very large assembly.

Then they slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth of the second month. And the priests and Levites were ashamed of themselves, and consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the house of the Lord.

In the third month they began to make the heaps, and finished them by the seventh month.

Then Josiah celebrated the Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem, and they slaughtered the Passover animals on the fourteenth day of the first month.