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Chapter 35
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Moreover Josiah 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. |
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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 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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: 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 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. |
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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 Josiah. |
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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. |
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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 Josiah 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 Josiah was this
passover kept. |
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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. |
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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 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. |
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And the archers shot at king Josiah; 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 Josiah. |
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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. |
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Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, 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. |
