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2 Chronicles 35:1
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Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD
in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first
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| 2 Chronicles 35:2 |
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And he set the priests in their charges, and
encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD, |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:3 |
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And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel,
which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the
son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders:
serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel, |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:4 |
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And prepare yourselves by the houses of your
fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel,
and according to the writing of Solomon his son. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:5 |
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And stand in the holy place according to the
divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after
the division of the families of the Levites. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:6 |
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So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves,
and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD
by the hand of Moses. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:7 |
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And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock,
lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to
the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the
king's substance. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:8 |
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And his princes gave willingly unto the people,
to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, 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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:9 |
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Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his
brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto
the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred
oxen. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:10 |
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So the service was prepared, and the priests
stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's
commandment. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:11 |
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And they killed the passover, and the priests
sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:12 |
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And they removed the burnt offerings, that they
might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer
unto the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the
oxen. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:13 |
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And they roasted the passover with fire according
to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons,
and in pans, and divided them speedily among all the people. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:14 |
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And afterward they made ready for themselves,
and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering
of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for
themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:15 |
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And 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 waited at every gate; they might not depart from
their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:16 |
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So all the service of the LORD was prepared
the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar
of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:17 |
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And the children of Israel that were present
kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:18 |
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And there was no passover like to that kept
in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all 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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:19 |
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In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah
was this passover kept. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:20 |
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After all this, when Josiah had prepared the
temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates:
and Josiah went out against him. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:21 |
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But 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: for God commanded me to make haste:
forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:22 |
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Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face
from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not
unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley
of Megiddo. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:23 |
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And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the
king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:24 |
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His servants therefore took him out of that
chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to
Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers.
And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:25 |
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And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the
singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this
day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the
lamentations. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:26 |
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Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his
goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the LORD, |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:27 |
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And his deeds, first and last, behold, they
are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. |
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