2Chr 35
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And Josias kept a passover to the Lord his God; and sacrificed the passover on the
fourteenth day of the first month.
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And he appointed the priests at their charges, and encouraged them for the services
of the house of the Lord.
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And he told the Levites that were able to act in all Israel, that they should consecrate
themselves to the Lord: and they put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son
of David king of Israel built: and the king said, You must not carry anything on your
shoulders: now then minister to the Lord your God, and to his people Israel.
4
And prepare yourselves according to the houses of your families, and according to
your daily courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and the order
by the hand of his son Solomon.
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And stand you in the house according to the divisions of the houses of your families
for your brethren the sons of the people; so also let there be for the Levites a division
of the house of their family.
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And kill you the passover, and prepare it for your brethren, to do according to the
word of the Lord, by the hand of Moses.
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And Josias Or, began by giving gave as an offering to the children of the people, sheep, and lambs, and kids of
the young of the goats, all for the passover, even for all that were found, in number
amounting to thirty thousand, and three thousand calves, these were of the substance
of the king.
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And his princes gave an offering to the people, and to the priests, and to the Levites:
and Chelcias and Zacharias and Jeiel the chief men gave to the priests of the house
of God, they even gave for the passover sheep, and lambs, and kids, two thousand six
hundred, and three hundred calves.
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And Chonenias, and Banaeas, and Samaeas, and Nathanael his brother, and Asabias, and
Jeiel, and Jozabad, heads of the Levites, gave an offering to the Levites for the
passover, of five thousand sheep and five hundred calves.
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And the service was duly ordered, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites
in their divisions, according to the command of the king.
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And they slew the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hand, and
the Levites flayed the victims.
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And they prepared the whole-burnt-offering to give to them, according to the division
by the houses of families, even to the sons of the people, to offer to the Lord, as
it is written in the book of Moses.
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And thus they did till the morning. And they roasted the passover with fire according
to the Gr. judgement ordinance; and boiled the holy pieces in copper vessels and caldrons, and the feast
went on well, and they Gr. ran to quickly served all the children of the people.
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And after they had prepared for themselves and for the priests, for the priests were
engaged in offering the whole-burnt-offerings and the fat until night, then the Levites
prepared for themselves, and for their brethren the sons of Aaron.
15
And the sons of Asaph the psalm-singers were at their post according to the commands
of David, and Asaph, and Æman, and Idithom, the prophets of the king: also, the chiefs
and the porters of the several gates; —it was not for them to stir from the service
of the holy things, for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.
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So all the service of the Lord was duly ordered and prepared in that day, Gr. of for keeping the passover, and offering the
whole-burnt-sacrifices on the altar of
the Lord, according to the command of king Josias.
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And the children of Israel that were Gr. found present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven
days.
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And there was no passover like it in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet, Gr. and every or any king of Israel: they
kept not such a passover as Josias, and the priests,
and the Levites, and all Juda and Israel that were present, and the dwellers in Jerusalem,
kept to the Lord.
19
In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias this passover was kept, after all these
things that Josias did in the house. (35:19AA) And king Josias burnt Lit. ventriloquists those who had in them a divining
spirit, and the wizards, and the images, and the
idols, and the sodomites which were in the land of Juda and in Jerusalem, that he
might confirm the words of the law that were written in the book which Chelcias the
priest found in the house of the Lord. (35:19BA) There was no king like him before him, who turned to the Lord with all his
heart,
and all his soul, and all his strength, according to all the law of Moses, and after
him there rose up none like him. (35:19CA) Nevertheless the Lord turned not from the anger of his fierce anger, wherewith
the
Lord was greatly angry against Juda, for all the provocations wherewith Manasses provoked
him: (35:19DA) and the Lord said, I will even remove Juda also from my presence, as I have removed
Israel, and I have rejected the city which I chose, even Jerusalem, and the house
of which I said, My name shall be there.
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And Pharao Nechao king of Egypt went up against the king of the Assyrians to the river
Euphrates, and king Josias went to meet him.
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And he sent messengers to him, saying, What have I to do with you, O king of Juda?
I am not come to-day to war against you; and God has told me to hasten: beware of
the God that is with me, lest he destroy you.
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However, Josias turned not his face from him, but strengthened himself to fight against
him, and hearkened not to the words of Nechao by the mouth of God, and he came to
fight in the plain of Mageddo.
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And the archers shot at king Josias; and the king said to his servants, Take me away,
for I am severely wounded.
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And his servants lifted him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot
which he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried with his fathers:
and all Juda and Jerusalem lamented over Josias.
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And Jeremias Or, framed a lamentation mourned over Josias, and all the chief men and chief women uttered a lamentation
over Josias until this day: and they made it an ordinance for Israel, and, behold,
it is written in the lamentations.
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And the rest of the acts of Josias, and his hope, Gr. were are written in the law of the Lord.
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And his acts, the first and the last, behold, they are written in the book of the
kings of Israel and Juda.