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2 Chronicles 35 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

2Ch 35:1

2Ch 35:1And Josiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem; on the fourteenth day of the first month they put the Passover lamb to death.

2Ch 35:2

2Ch 35:2And he gave the priests their places, making them strong for the work of the house of God.

2Ch 35:3

2Ch 35:3And he said to the Levites, the teachers of all Israel, who were holy to the Lord, See, the holy ark is in the house which Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel, made; it will no longer have to be transported on your backs: now be the servants of the Lord your God and his people Israel,

2Ch 35:4

2Ch 35:4And make yourselves ready in your divisions, by your families, as it is ordered in the writings of David, king of Israel, and of Solomon his son;

2Ch 35:5

2Ch 35:5And take your positions in the holy place, grouped in the families of your brothers, the children of the people, and for every division let there be a part of a family of the Levites.

2Ch 35:6

2Ch 35:6And put the Passover lamb to death, and make yourselves holy, and make it ready for your brothers, so that the orders given by the Lord through Moses may be done.

2Ch 35:7

2Ch 35:7And Josiah gave lambs and goats from the flock as Passover offerings for all the people who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand oxen: these were from the king's private property.

2Ch 35:8

2Ch 35:8And his captains freely gave an offering to the people, the priests, and the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand, six hundred small cattle and three hundred oxen.

2Ch 35:9

2Ch 35:9And Conaniah and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small cattle and five hundred oxen.

2Ch 35:10

2Ch 35:10So everything was made ready and the priests took their places with the Levites in their divisions, as the king had said.

2Ch 35:11

2Ch 35:11And they put the Passover lambs to death, the blood being drained out by the priests when it was given to them, and the Levites did the skinning.

2Ch 35:12

2Ch 35:12And they took away the burned offerings, so that they might give them to be offered to the Lord for the divisions of the families of the people, as it is recorded in the book of Moses. And they did the same with the oxen.

2Ch 35:13

2Ch 35:13And the Passover lamb was cooked over the fire, as it says in the law; and the holy offerings were cooked in pots and basins and vessels, and taken quickly to all the people.

2Ch 35:14

2Ch 35:14And after that, they made ready for themselves and for the priests; for the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering the burned offerings and the fat till night; so the Levites made ready what was needed for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.

2Ch 35:15

2Ch 35:15And the sons of Asaph, the makers of melody, were in their places, as ordered by David and Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, the king's seer; and the door-keepers were stationed at every door: there was no need for them to go away from their places, for their brothers the Levites made ready for them.

2Ch 35:16

2Ch 35:16So everything needed for the worship of the Lord was made ready that same day, for the keeping of the Passover and the offering of burned offerings on the altar of the Lord, as King Josiah had given orders.

2Ch 35:17

2Ch 35:17And all the children of Israel who were present kept the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread at that time for seven days.

2Ch 35:18

2Ch 35:18No Passover like it had been kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; and not one of the kings of Israel had ever kept a Passover like the one kept by Josiah and the priests and the Levites and all those of Judah and Israel who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.

2Ch 35:19

2Ch 35:19In the eighteenth year of the rule of Josiah this Passover was kept.

Josiah Dies in Battle

(2Ki 23:28–30 )

2Ch 35:20

2Ch 35:20After all this, and after Josiah had put the house in order, Neco, king of Egypt, went up to make war at Carchemish by the river Euphrates; and Josiah went out against him.

2Ch 35:21

2Ch 35:21But he sent representatives to him, saying, What have I to do with you, O king of Judah? I have not come against you this day, but against those with whom I am at war; and God has given me orders to go forward quickly: keep out of God's way, for he is with me, or he will send destruction on you.

2Ch 35:22

2Ch 35:22However, Josiah would not go back; but keeping to his purpose of fighting against him, and giving no attention to the words of Neco, which came from God, he went forward to the fight in the valley of Megiddo.

2Ch 35:23

2Ch 35:23And the bowmen sent their arrows at King Josiah, and the king said to his servants, Take me away, for I am badly wounded.

2Ch 35:24

2Ch 35:24So his servants took him out of the line of war-carriages, and put him in his second carriage and took him to Jerusalem, where he came to his end, and they put his body in the resting-place of his fathers. And in all Judah and Jerusalem there was great weeping for Josiah.

2Ch 35:25

2Ch 35:25And Jeremiah made a song of grief for Josiah; and to this day Josiah is named by all the makers of melody, men and women, in their songs of grief; they made it a rule in Israel; and the songs are recorded among the songs of grief.

2Ch 35:26

2Ch 35:26Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and the good he did, in keeping with what is recorded in the law of the Lord,

2Ch 35:27

2Ch 35:27And all his acts, first and last, are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
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