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Josiah kept a passover unto the Lord in
Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the
fourteenth day of the first month.
02 And he set the priests in their charges, and
encouraged them to the service of the house of
the Lord,
03 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,
04 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.
05 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.
06 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.
07 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.
08 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.
09 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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
17 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.
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.
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