2 Chronicles 35 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

The Passover Observed Again

(2Ki 23:21–23 )

2Ch 35:1And Josiah kept a passover unto Jehovah in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

2Ch 35:2

2Ch 35:2And he set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them to the service of the house of Jehovah.

2Ch 35:3

2Ch 35:3And he said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, that were holy unto Jehovah, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; there shall no more be a burden upon your shoulders. Now serve Jehovah your God, and his people Israel;

2Ch 35:4

2Ch 35:4and prepare yourselves after your fathers’ houses by your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.

2Ch 35:5

2Ch 35:5And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of your brethren the children of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a fathers’ house of the Levites.

2Ch 35:6

2Ch 35:6And kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brethren, to do according to the word of Jehovah by Moses.

2Ch 35:7

2Ch 35:7And Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all of them for the passover-offerings, unto all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king’s substance.

2Ch 35:8

2Ch 35:8And his princes gave for a freewill-offering unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the 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.

2Ch 35:9

2Ch 35:9Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for the passover-offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.

2Ch 35:10

2Ch 35:10So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king’s commandment.

2Ch 35:11

2Ch 35:11And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received of their hand, and the Levites flayed them.

2Ch 35:12

2Ch 35:12And they 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 unto Jehovah, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen.

2Ch 35:13

2Ch 35:13And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: and the holy offerings boiled they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of the people.

2Ch 35:14

2Ch 35:14And afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering the burnt-offerings and the fat until night: therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.

2Ch 35:15

2Ch 35:15And 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 were at every gate: they needed not to depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

2Ch 35:16

2Ch 35:16So all the service of Jehovah was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt-offerings upon the altar of Jehovah, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

2Ch 35:17

2Ch 35:17And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

2Ch 35:18

2Ch 35:18And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of 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.

2Ch 35:19

2Ch 35:19In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.

Josiah Dies in Battle

(2Ki 23:28–30 )

2Ch 35:20

2Ch 35:20After 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.

2Ch 35:21

2Ch 35:21But 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; and God hath commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.

2Ch 35:22

2Ch 35:22Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

2Ch 35:23

2Ch 35:23And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.

2Ch 35:24

2Ch 35:24So 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 sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

2Ch 35:25

2Ch 35:25And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations unto this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

2Ch 35:26

2Ch 35:26Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds, according to that which is written in the law of Jehovah,

2Ch 35:27

2Ch 35:27and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

2 Chronicles 35 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

The Passover Observed Again

Josiah Dies in Battle

Pericope