1Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the Lord in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.[ † ]2 Kings 23:21-22Exodus 12:6Numbers 9:3Ezra 6:19 2And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the Lord ,[ † ]2 Chronicles 23:18Ezra 6:182 Chronicles 29:5-15 3and 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,[ † ]Deuteronomy 33:102 Chronicles 17:8-9Nehemiah 8:72 Chronicles 34:14Exodus 40:212 Chronicles 5:71 Chronicles 23:26 4and 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.[ † ]1 Chronicles 9:10-131 Chronicles 23-262 Chronicles 8:14 5And 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.[ † ]Psalms 134:1 6So 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.[ † ]2 Chronicles 29:5-15
7And 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.[ † ]2 Chronicles 30:242 Chronicles 31:3 8And 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.[ † ]Numbers 7:2 9Conaniah 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.[ † ]2 Chronicles 31:12
10So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.[ † ]Ezra 6:18Hebrews 9:62 Chronicles 5:122 Chronicles 7:62 Chronicles 8:14-152 Chronicles 13:102 Chronicles 29:25-34 11And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them .[ † ]Exodus 12:222 Chronicles 29:222 Chronicles 29:34 12And 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.[ † ]Leviticus 3:3Ezra 6:18 13And 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.[ † ]Exodus 12:8-9Deuteronomy 16:71 Samuel 2:13-15 14And 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. 15And 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.[ † ]1 Chronicles 25:1-61 Chronicles 9:17-18
16So 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. 17And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.[ † ]Exodus 12:15Exodus 13:62 Chronicles 30:21 18And 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.[ † ]2 Kings 23:22-23
19In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.
20After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.[ † ]2 Kings 23:29Isaiah 10:9Jeremiah 46:2 21But 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. 22Nevertheless 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.[ † ]1 Kings 22:302 Chronicles 18:29 23And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded. 24His 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.[ † ]2 Kings 23:301 Kings 14:18Zechariah 12:11 25And 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.[ † ]Lamentations 4:20Jeremiah 22:10-11Matthew 9:23Jeremiah 22:20
26Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the Lord , 27and his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.