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2 Chronicles 35:1 (show verse)

And Josiah kept a Passover to LORD in Jerusalem. And they killed the Passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month.

2 Chronicles 35:2 (show verse)

And he set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them to the service of the house of LORD.

2 Chronicles 35:3 (show verse)

And he said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built. There shall no more be a burden upon your shoulders. Now serve LORD your Go

2 Chronicles 35:4 (show verse)

And prepare yourselves after your fathers' houses by your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.

2 Chronicles 35:5 (show verse)

And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers' houses of your brothers the sons of the people, and the portion of a fathers' house of the Levites.

2 Chronicles 35:6 (show verse)

And kill the Passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the word of LORD by Moses.

2 Chronicles 35:7 (show verse)

And Josiah gave to the sons of the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all of them for the Passover offerings, to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and [also] three thousand bullocks; these were of the king'

2 Chronicles 35:8 (show verse)

And his rulers gave for a freewill-offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand and six hu

2 Chronicles 35:9 (show verse)

Conaniah 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 five thousand [small cattle], and five hundred oxen.

2 Chronicles 35:10 (show verse)

So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king's commandment.

2 Chronicles 35:11 (show verse)

And they killed the Passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood] by their hand, and the Levites skinned them.

2 Chronicles 35:12 (show verse)

And they removed the burnt-offerings that they might give them according to the divisions of the fathers' houses of the sons of the people, to offer to LORD as it is written in the book of Moses. And so they did with the oxen.

2 Chronicles 35:13 (show verse)

And they roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance. And the holy offerings they boiled in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the sons of the people.

2 Chronicles 35:14 (show verse)

And afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron [were busy] in offering the burnt-offerings and the fat until night. Therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the

2 Chronicles 35:15 (show verse)

And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer. And the porters were at every gate. They did not need to depart from their service, fo

2 Chronicles 35:16 (show verse)

So all the service of LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt-offerings upon the altar of LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

2 Chronicles 35:17 (show verse)

And the sons of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

2 Chronicles 35:18 (show verse)

And there was no Passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet. Neither did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that

2 Chronicles 35:19 (show verse)

In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah this Passover was kept.

2 Chronicles 35:20 (show verse)

After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out against him.

2 Chronicles 35:21 (show verse)

But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? [I come] not against thee this day, but against the house with which I have war, and God has commanded me to make haste. Cease thee from [medd

2 Chronicles 35:22 (show verse)

Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself that he might fight with him. And he did not hearken to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

2 Chronicles 35:23 (show verse)

And the archers shot at king Josiah. And the king said to his servants, Remove me, for I am severely wounded.

2 Chronicles 35:24 (show verse)

So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem. And he died, and was buried in the sepulchers of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

2 Chronicles 35:25 (show verse)

And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. And all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day. And they made them an ordinance in Israel, and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

2 Chronicles 35:26 (show verse)

Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds, according to that which is written in the law of LORD,
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2 Chronicles 35:27 (show verse)

and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
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