2 Chronicles 35

1Josiah kept a Passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem. They killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.Cross-references: Ex 12:6 · Num 9:3 · Deut 16:1 · 2Ki 23:21 · 2Chr 30:1 · Ezra 6:19 · +1 more

2He set the priests in their offices and encouraged them in the service of Yahweh’s house.Cross-references: Num 18:5 · 1Chr 22:19 · 1Chr 24:1 · 2Chr 23:8 · 2Chr 23:18 · 2Chr 29:5 · +2 more

3He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to Yahweh, “Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built. It will no longer be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve Yahweh your God and his people Israel.Cross-references: Num 4:15 · Num 8:19 · Num 16:9 · Deut 33:10 · 1Chr 23:26 · 2Chr 5:7 · +7 more

4Prepare yourselves after your fathers’ houses by your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.Cross-references: 1Chr 9:10 · 1Chr 23:1 · 1Chr 24:1 · 2Chr 8:14 · Neh 11:10

5Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of your brothers the children of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a fathers’ house of the Levites.Cross-references: Ezra 6:18 · Ps 134:1 · Ps 135:2

6Kill the Passover lamb, sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to Yahweh’s word by Moses.”Cross-references: Gen 35:2 · Ex 12:6 · Ex 12:21 · Ex 19:10 · Ex 19:15 · Num 19:11 · +10 more

7Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and young goats, all of them for the Passover offerings, to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bulls. These were of the king’s substance.Cross-references: 1Ki 8:63 · 1Chr 29:3 · 2Chr 7:8 · 2Chr 30:24 · 2Chr 31:3 · Isa 32:8 · +1 more

8His princes gave a free will offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the rulers of God’s house, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand six hundred small livestock, and three hundred head of cattle.Cross-references: 1Chr 9:20 · 1Chr 24:4 · 1Chr 29:6 · 1Chr 29:17 · 2Chr 29:31 · 2Chr 34:14 · +13 more

9Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small livestock and five hundred head of cattle.Cross-references: 2Chr 31:12 · Isa 1:10 · Jer 3:10 · Jer 7:21 · Mic 6:6

10So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king’s commandment.Cross-references: 2Chr 30:16 · 2Chr 35:4 · Ezra 6:18

11They killed the Passover lambs, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received from their hands, and the Levites skinned them.Cross-references: Lev 1:5 · Num 18:3 · Num 18:7 · 2Chr 29:22 · 2Chr 29:34 · 2Chr 30:16 · +1 more

12They removed the burnt offerings, that they might give them according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of the children of the people, to offer to Yahweh, as it is written in the book of Moses. They did the same with the cattle.Cross-references: Lev 3:3 · Lev 3:5 · Lev 3:9 · Lev 3:14

13They roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance. They boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of the people.Cross-references: Ex 12:8 · Lev 6:28 · Num 6:19 · Deut 16:7 · 1Sam 2:13 · Ps 22:14 · +2 more

14Afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron were busy with offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night. Therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests the sons of Aaron.Cross-references: Acts 6:2

15The singers, the sons of Asaph, were in their place, according to the commandment of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the gatekeepers were at every gate. They didn’t need to depart from their service, because their brothers the Levites prepared for them.Cross-references: 1Chr 9:17 · 1Chr 16:41 · 1Chr 23:5 · 1Chr 25:1 · 1Chr 26:12 · 2Chr 29:25 · +3 more

16So all the service of Yahweh was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on Yahweh’s altar, according to the commandment of King Josiah.

17The children of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.Cross-references: Ex 12:15 · Ex 13:6 · Ex 23:15 · Ex 34:18 · Lev 23:5 · Num 28:16 · +4 more

18There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet, nor did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept—with the priests, the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.Cross-references: 2Ki 23:21 · 2Chr 30:5 · 2Chr 30:26

19This Passover was kept in the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah.

20After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out against him.Cross-references: 2Ki 23:29 · Isa 10:9 · Jer 46:2

21But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you today, but against the house with which I have war. God has commanded me to make haste. Beware that it is God who is with me, that he not destroy you.”Cross-references: 2Sam 16:10 · 2Ki 18:25 · 2Chr 25:19 · Isa 36:10 · Matt 8:29 · John 2:4

22Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and didn’t listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.Cross-references: Josh 9:14 · Judg 5:19 · 1Ki 14:2 · 1Ki 22:30 · 1Ki 22:34 · 2Ki 9:27 · +6 more

23The archers shot at King Josiah; and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, because I am seriously wounded!”Cross-references: Gen 49:23 · 1Ki 22:34 · 2Ki 8:29 · 2Ki 9:24 · 2Chr 18:33 · Lam 3:13

24So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.Cross-references: Gen 41:43 · 2Ki 23:30 · 2Chr 34:28 · Ps 36:6 · Eccl 8:14 · Eccl 9:1 · +1 more

25Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel. Behold, they are written in the lamentations.Cross-references: Job 3:8 · Eccl 12:5 · Jer 9:17 · Jer 22:10 · Jer 22:20 · Lam 4:20 · +1 more

26Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and his good deeds, according to that which is written in Yahweh’s law,Cross-references: 2Chr 31:20 · 2Chr 32:32

27and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.Cross-references: 2Ki 10:34 · 2Ki 16:19 · 2Ki 20:20 · 2Ki 21:25 · 2Chr 20:34 · 2Chr 24:27 · +4 more