and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against
the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before
me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD.
[28] Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou
shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this
place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.
[29] Then the king
sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
[30] And the king went up into the
house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and
the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of
the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.
[31] And the king stood in his place, and made a
covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies,
and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are
written in this book.
[32] And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it.
And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
[33] And
Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and
made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they
departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.
2Chr.35
[1] Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the
fourteenth day of the first month.
[2] And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the
service of the house of the LORD,
[3] 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,
[4]
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.
[5] 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.
[6] 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.
[7] 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.
[8] 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.
[9] 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.
[10] So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in
their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.
[11] And they killed
the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.
[12] 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.
[13]
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.
[14] 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.
[15] 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.
[16] 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.
[17]
And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened
bread seven days.
[18] 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.
[19] In the
eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.
[20] After all this, when Josiah had prepared