역대하 35장 NASB

  1. 1 Then Josiah celebrated the Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem and they slaughtered the Passover animals on the fourteenth day of the first month.
  2. 2 He set the priests in their offices and encouraged them in the service of the house of the LORD.
  3. 3 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.
  4. 4 "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.
  5. 5 "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.
  6. 6 "Now slaughter the Passover animals sanctify yourselves and prepare for your brethren to do according to the word of the LORD by Moses."
  7. 7 Josiah contributed to the lay people to all who were present flocks of lambs and young goats all for the Passover offerings numbering 30000 plus 3000 bulls; these were from the king's possessions.
  8. 8 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 2600 from the flocks and 300 bulls.
  9. 9 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 5000 from the flocks and 500 bulls.
  10. 10 So the service was prepared and the priests stood at their stations and the Levites by their divisions according to the king's command.
  11. 11 They slaughtered the Passover animals and while the priests sprinkled the blood received from their hand the Levites skinned them.
  12. 12 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.
  13. 13 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.
  14. 14 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.
  15. 15 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.
  16. 16 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.
  17. 17 Thus the sons of Israel who were present celebrated the Passover at that time and the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days.
  18. 18 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.
  19. 19 In the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign this Passover was celebrated.
  20. 20 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.
  21. 21 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."
  22. 22 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.
  23. 23 The archers shot King Josiah and the king said to his servants "Take me away for I am badly wounded."
  24. 24 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.
  25. 25 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.
  26. 26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and his deeds of devotion as written in the law of the LORD
  27. 27 and his acts first to last behold they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.
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