2 Chronicles 35
35:1And Josiah observed the passover in Jerusalem to the lord his God. And he sacrificed the passover on the fourteenth of the first month.
35:2And he stationed the priests at their watches, and he strengthened them for the works of the house of the lord.
35:3And he spoke to the Levites, to the mighty ones in all Israel, to sanctify themselves to the lord, and to put the holy ark in the house of the lord. And they put the holy ark in the house which Solomon son of David the king of Israel built. And the king said, It is not for you to lift anything upon your shoulders. Now then, you officiate to the lord your God, and to his people Israel!
35:4And be prepared according to the houses of your families, and according to your daily rotations, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and by the hand of Solomon his son!
35:5And stand in the house according to the divisions of the houses of your families, of your brethren, the sons of the people, and the portion of the house of the family to the Levites!
35:6And sacrifice the passover, and prepare the holy things for your brethren! to observe according to the word of the lord by the hand of Moses.
35:7And Josiah dedicated for the sons of the people -- sheep, and lambs, and kids from the sons of the goats, all for the passover, to everyone being found -- in number thirty thousand, and three thousand calves. These were of the substance of the king.
35:8And his rulers dedicated to the people, and to the priests, and to the Levites; and Helkiah and Zechariah and Jeiel the rulers of the house of God gave to the priests for the passover -- sheeps and lambs and kids -- two thousand and six hundred, and three hundred calves.
35:9And Conaniah, and Shemaiah, and Nethaneel his brother, and Hashabiah, and Jehiel, and Jozabad, rulers of the Levites, dedicated to the Levites for the passover -- five thousand sheep, and five hundred calves.
35:10And the ministration was set up, and the priests stood at their station, and the Levites in their divisions, according to the commandment of the king.
35:11And they sacrificed the passover. And the priests poured the blood from out of their hand, and the Levites flayed.
35:12And they prepared the whole burnt-offering, to deliver them according to the division, according to the houses of the families to the sons of the people, to offer to the lord, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so it was into the morning.
35:13And they roasted the passover in fire according to the ordinance. And the holy pieces they boiled in the brass cauldrons, and in the kettles. And the way prospered, and they ran it to all the sons of the people.
35:14And after this they prepared for themselves, and for the priests (for the priests, the sons of Aaron, in offering of the whole burnt-offerings and of the fat,) until night. And the Levites prepared for themselves, and for their brethren the sons of Aaron.
35:15And the psalm singers, the sons of Asaph were at their station, according to the commands of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun of the prophets of the king; and the rulers, and the gatekeepers, were stationed gate by gate; it was not for them to move from their ministration, for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.
35:16And all the ministration of the lord was set up in that day, to observe the passover, and to offer the whole burnt-offerings upon the altar of the lord, according to the command of king Josiah.
35:17And the sons of Israel being found present observed the passover at that time, and the holiday of the unleavened breads seven days.
35:18And there was not a passover likened to it in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; for all kings of Israel did not do the passover which Josiah did, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel, the ones being found, and the ones dwelling in Jerusalem, to the lord.
35:19In the eighteenth year of the kingdom of Josiah this passover was observed.
35:20And after all these things which Josiah prepared for the house, Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt ascended up against the king of the Assyrians at the river Euphrates, to wage war against him at Carchemish. And king Josiah went to meet against him.
35:21And he sent to him messengers, saying, What is it to me and to you, O king of Judah? I come not against you today to make war, but only against the place of my war; and God told me to hasten. You take heed of the God, of the one with me, lest he ruin you.
35:22And Josiah did not turn his face from him, but he fortified himself to wage war against him. And he did not hearken concerning the words of Pharaoh Necho by the mouth of God. And he came to wage war in the plain of Megiddo.
35:23And the bowmen shot unto king Josiah. And the king said to his servants, Lead me out! for I am in pain exceedingly.
35:24And his servants led him from the chariot, and hauled him upon the second chariot which was his; and they led him to Jerusalem, and he died, and he was entombed with his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned over Josiah.
35:25And Jeremiah lamented over Josiah. And all the rulers and the ones in control spoke a lamentation over Josiah spoken until today. And they appointed it as an order unto Israel, and behold, it is written in the lamentations.
35:26And the rest of the words of Josiah and his hope were being written in the law of the lord.
35:27And his words, the first and the last, behold, they are written upon the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah.