1Josiah made a Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and they slaughtered the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.2The priests stood at their posts and strengthened themselves for the service of the house of the LORD.3He said to the Levites who had understanding, who had understanding for all Israel, the holy ones to the LORD: Give the ark of holiness into the house that Solomon son of David, king of Israel, built. You have nothing as a burden on your shoulder. Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel.4Prepare for the house of your fathers according to your divisions, as written by David king of Israel and by Solomon his son.5Stand in holiness according to the divisions of the house of the fathers for your brothers, the sons of the people, and according to the division of the house of the father for the Levites.6Slaughter the Passover, consecrate yourselves, and prepare for your brothers so that they may act according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.7Josiah provided for the sons of the people thirty thousand lambs and young goats from the flock, together with three thousand cattle, for the Passover offerings for all who were present. These came from the property of the king.8His officials also contributed voluntarily for the people, the priests, and the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the leaders of the house of God, gave the priests two thousand six hundred Passover offerings and three hundred cattle.9Conaniah, Shemaiah, Nethanel his brothers, Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, the rulers of the Levites, contributed five thousand Passover offerings and five hundred cattle for the Levites.10The service was arranged, the priests stood at their stations, and the Levites stood at their divisions according to the king's command.11They slaughtered the Passover. The priests splashed the blood from their hands, and the Levites skinned the animals.12They set aside the burnt offering to give to the divisions of the house of the fathers for the sons of the people, to present to the LORD as written in the scroll of Moses, and likewise for the cattle.13They roasted the Passover in the fire according to the regulation. The holy portions they boiled in pots, in caldrons, and in pans, and they carried them quickly to all the sons of the people.14Afterward they prepared food for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the sons of Aaron, were occupied with offering the burnt offering and the fat until night. The Levites prepared food for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.15The singers, the sons of Asaph, stood upon their office according to the commandment of David and Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun the seer of the king, and the gatekeepers at gate and gate. They had nothing to turn aside from their service, for their brothers the Levites prepared for them.16All the service of the LORD was completed on that day for keeping the Passover and offering burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD according to the command of King Josiah.17The sons of Israel who were present made the Passover at that time and the feast of the unleavened bread seven days.18No Passover like it had been made in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet, and none of the kings of Israel had made a Passover such as Josiah made, and the priests and the Levites and all Judah and Israel who were present and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.19This Passover was kept in the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah.