2 Chronicles Chapter 35
35:1 | Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in ![]() ![]() |
35:2 | And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the ![]() |
35:3 | And said unto the Levites that taught all ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
35:4 | And prepare [yourselves] by the ![]() ![]() ![]() |
35:5 | 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. |
35:6 | So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that [they] may ![]() |
35:7 | 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 ![]() |
35:8 | And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the ![]() ![]() |
35:9 | 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 ![]() |
35:10 | So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the ![]() |
35:11 | And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood] from their hands, and the Levites flayed [them]. |
35:12 | 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. |
35:13 | 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. |
35:14 | 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. |
35:15 | And the singers the sons of Asaph [were] in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the ![]() |
35:16 | So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same ![]() ![]() |
35:17 | And the children of ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
35:18 | And there was no passover like to that kept in ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
35:19 | In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept. |
35:20 | After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho ![]() |
35:21 | But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
35:22 | 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. |
35:23 | And the archers shot at ![]() ![]() |
35:24 | His servants therefore took him out of that ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
35:25 | And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this ![]() ![]() |
35:26 | Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to [that which was] written in the law of the LORD, |
35:27 | And his deeds, first and last, behold, they [are] written in the book of the ![]() ![]() |