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1 Moreover Josiah kept a
passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the
fourteenth day of the first month.
2 And he set the priests in their charges,
and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,
3 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Carchemish 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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