2 Chronicles 35
Josiah Keeps the
Passover |
2 Kgs. 23.21-23 |
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Moreover, Josi'ah 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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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,
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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: 2 Chr. 8.14
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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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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.
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And Josi'ah gave to the people, of the
flocks, 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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And his princes gave willingly unto the
people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilki'ah and Zechari'ah
and Jehi'el, 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.
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Conani'ah also, and Shemai'ah and
Nethan'e-el, his brethren, and Hashabi'ah and Je-i'el and Joz'abad,
chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings
five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.
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So the service was prepared, and the
priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses,
according to the king's commandment.
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And they killed the passover, and the
priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites
flayed them.
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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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And they roasted the passover with fire
according to the ordinance: Ex. 12.8, 9 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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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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And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David,
and Asaph, and Heman, and Jedu'thun the king's seer; 1 Chr. 25.1 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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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
Josi'ah.
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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. Ex. 12.1-20
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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 Josi'ah kept, and the
priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were
present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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In the eighteenth year of the reign of
Josi'ah was this passover kept.
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The Death of
Josiah |
2 Kgs. 23.28-30 |
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After all this, when Josi'ah had
prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against
Car'chemish by Euphra'tes: and Josi'ah went out against
him.
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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.
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Nevertheless Josi'ah 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 Megid'do.
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And the archers shot at king Josi'ah; and
the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore
wounded.
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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 Josi'ah.
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And Jeremiah lamented for Josi'ah: and
all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josi'ah in their
lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and,
behold, they are written in the lamentations.
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Now the rest of the acts of Josi'ah, and
his goodness, according to that which was written in the law
of the LORD,
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and his deeds, first and last, behold,
they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and
Judah.
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