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Passover Observed Again |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:1 |
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Then Josiah celebrated the Passover to the
LORD in Jerusalem, and they slaughtered the Passover animals on the fourteenth
day of the first month. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:2 |
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He set the priests in their offices and encouraged
them in the service of the house of the LORD. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:3 |
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He also said to the Levites who taught all
Israel and who were holy to the LORD, "Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon
the son of David king of Israel built; it will be a burden on your shoulders no
longer. Now serve the LORD your God and His people Israel. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:4 |
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Prepare yourselves by your fathers' households
in your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel and according
to the writing of his son Solomon. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:5 |
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Moreover, stand in the holy place according
to the sections of the fathers' households of your brethren the lay people, and
according to the Levites, by division of a father's household. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:6 |
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Now slaughter the Passover animals, sanctify
yourselves and prepare for your brethren to do according to the word of the LORD
by Moses." |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:7 |
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Josiah contributed to the lay people, to all
who were present, flocks of lambs and young goats, all for the Passover offerings,
numbering 30,000 plus 3,000 bulls; these were from the king's possessions. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:8 |
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His officers also contributed a freewill offering
to the people, the priests and the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel,
the officials of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings
2,600 from the flocks and 300 bulls. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:9 |
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Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his
brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the officers of the Levites, contributed
to the Levites for the Passover offerings 5,000 from the flocks and 500 bulls. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:10 |
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So the service was prepared, and the priests
stood at their stations and the Levites by their divisions according to the king's
command. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:11 |
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They slaughtered the Passover animals, and while
the priests sprinkled the blood received from their hand, the Levites skinned
them. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:12 |
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Then they removed the burnt offerings that they
might give them to the sections of the fathers' households of the lay people to
present to the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. They did this also
with the bulls. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:13 |
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So they roasted the Passover animals on the
fire according to the ordinance, and they boiled the holy things in pots, in kettles,
in pans, and carried them speedily to all the lay people. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:14 |
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Afterwards they prepared for themselves and
for the priests, because the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering the 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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The singers, the sons of Asaph, were also at
their stations according to the command of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the
king's seer; and the gatekeepers at each gate did not have to depart from their
service, because the Levites their brethren prepared for them. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:16 |
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So all the service of the LORD was prepared
on that day to celebrate the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the altar
of the LORD according to the command of King Josiah. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:17 |
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Thus the sons of Israel who were present celebrated
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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There had not been celebrated a Passover like
it in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet; nor had any of the kings of
Israel celebrated such a Passover as Josiah did with the priests, the Levites,
all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:19 |
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In the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign this
Passover was celebrated. |
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Josiah
Dies in Battle |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:20 |
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After all this, when Josiah had set the temple
in order, Neco king of Egypt came up to make war at Carchemish on the Euphrates,
and Josiah went out to engage him. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:21 |
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But Neco sent messengers to him, saying, "What
have we to do with each other, O King of Judah? I am not coming against you today
but against the house with which I am at war, and God has ordered me to hurry.
Stop for your own sake from interfering with God who is with me, so that He will
not destroy you." |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:22 |
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However, Josiah would not turn away from him,
but disguised himself in order to make war with him; nor did he listen to the
words of Neco from the mouth of God, but came to make war on the plain of Megiddo. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:23 |
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The archers shot King Josiah, and the king said
to his servants, "Take me away, for I am badly wounded." |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:24 |
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So his servants took him out of the chariot
and carried him in the second chariot which he had, and brought him to Jerusalem
where he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem
mourned for Josiah. |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:25 |
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Then Jeremiah chanted a lament for Josiah. And
all the male and female singers speak about Josiah in their lamentations to this
day. And they made them an ordinance in Israel; behold, they are also 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 deeds
of devotion as written in the law of the LORD, |
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| 2 Chronicles 35:27 |
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and his acts, first to last, behold, they are
written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. |
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