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Josiah's Observance of the Passover

2 Chronicles 35:1-19

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Chapter 35
1 And Josiah kept a Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and they slaughtered the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month. 2 He stationed the priests in their posts and strengthened them for the service of the house of the LORD. 3 He said to the Levites who had understanding in all Israel, the ones sanctified to the LORD, "Put the ark of the sanctuary in the house that Solomon son of David king of Israel built. You no longer need to carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel." 4 And prepare for the house of your fathers according to your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel and the writing of Solomon his son. 5 And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the house of the fathers for your brothers, sons of the people, and the portion of a father's house for the Levites. 6 And they shall slaughter the Passover and consecrate themselves and prepare for your brothers to do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses. 7 And Josiah provided for the people sheep and goats, all for the Passover offerings, for all who were found, numbering thirty thousand sheep and three thousand cattle—these from the king's property. 8 And his rulers lifted up Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jahiel, rulers of the House of God, to a voluntary offering for the people, for the priests, and for the Levites. They gave to the Passovers two thousand six hundred small cattle, and three hundred cattle. 9 And Conaniah and Shemaiah and Nethanel his brother and Hasabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, rulers of the Levites, lifted up to the Levites for Passovers five thousands and cattle five hundreds. 10 The service was prepared, and the priests stood at their posts and the Levites in their divisions according to the king's command. 11 And they slaughtered the Passover, and the priests sprinkled from their hand, and the Levites stripped. 12 They removed the burnt offering to give it by their divisions to the houses of their fathers for the sons of the people to offer to the LORD, as it is written in the Book of Moses. And likewise for the cattle. 13 And they cooked the Passover with fire according to the rule, and the holy things they cooked in pots and in cauldrons and in platters, and they carried them to all the people. 14 And afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, for the priests the sons of Aaron were busy offering the burnt offerings and the fat portions until night, and the Levites prepared for them and for the priests the sons of Aaron. 15 And the singers, the sons of Asaph, were at their station according to the commandment of David and Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun the king's seer, and the gatekeepers at their gates—there was no need for them to turn away from their service, for their brothers the Levites had prepared for them. 16 And all the service of the LORD was prepared that day to make the Passover and the burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD according to the commandments of King Josiah. 17 The sons of Israel who were found kept the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days. 18 No Passover like it had been done in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel did a Passover like the one that Josiah, the priests, the Levites, all Judah and Israel who were found, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did. 19 In the eighteenth year of Josiah's kingdom, this Passover was done.