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Chapter 35 |
| 1 | Moreover
Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover
on the fourteenth day of the first month. |
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2 | And he set the priests in
their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the
LORD, |
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And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were
holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of
David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders:
serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel, |
| 4 | And prepare
yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the
writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his
son. |
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And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the
families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the division of
the families of the Levites. |
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6 | So kill the passover, and sanctify
yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word
of the LORD by the hand of Moses. |
| 7 | And Josiah gave to the people,
of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were
present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these
were of the king's substance. |
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8 | And his princes gave willingly unto the
people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel,
rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings
two thousand and six hundred small cattle and three hundred oxen. |
| 9 |
Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and
Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover
offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen. |
| 10 | So
the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites
in their courses, according to the king's commandment. |
| 11 | And they
killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and
the Levites flayed them. |
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12 | And they removed the burnt offerings,
that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people,
to offer unto the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they
with the oxen. |
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13 | And they roasted the passover with fire according
to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in
caldrons, and in pans, and divided them speedily among all the people.
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| 14 | And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests:
because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt
offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for
themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron. |
| 15 | 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
waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their
brethren the Levites prepared for them. |
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16 | So all the service of the
LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt
offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king
Josiah. |
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| And the children of Israel that were present kept the
passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. |
| 18 |
And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel
the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah
kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were
present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. |
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19 | In the eighteenth year
of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept. |
| 20 | After all
this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight
against Charchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him. |
| 21 |
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 wherewith I
have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with
God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not. |
| 22 | Nevertheless
Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might
fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of
God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo. |
| 23 | And the
archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away;
for I am sore wounded. |
| 24 | His servants therefore 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 one of the sepulchres of his fathers.
And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. |
| 25 | And Jeremiah
lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of
Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel:
and, behold, they are written in the lamentations. |
| 26 | Now the rest
of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in
the law of the LORD, |
| 27 | And his deeds, first and last, behold, they
are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. |
