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1Josiah kept the Passover to his Lord in Jerusalem; he killed the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month,[#2 Kings 23.21; 2 Chr 35.1–19]
2having placed the priests according to their divisions, arrayed in their vestments, in the temple of the Lord.[#v 15; 2 Chr 31.2; Lk 1.5, 8]
3He told the Levites, the temple servants of Israel, that they should sanctify themselves to the Lord and put the holy ark of the Lord in the house that King Solomon, son of David, had built,[#1 Kings 6.1–38; 1 Chr 9.2; 2 Chr 3.1]
4and he said, “You need no longer carry it on your shoulders. Now worship the Lord your God and serve his nation Israel; prepare yourselves by your families and kindred, in accordance with the directions of King David of Israel and the magnificence of his son Solomon.[#v 10; 2 Chr 35.3; #1.4 Gk lacks and he said]
5Stand in order in the temple according to the groupings of the ancestral houses of you Levites, who minister before your kindred the people of Israel,[#v 10; 1 Chr 23.6; 2 Chr 35.4; 1 Esd 5.4; 8.28; #1.5 Other ancient authorities read holy place]
6and kill the Passover lamb and prepare the sacrifices for your kindred, and keep the Passover according to the commandment of the Lord that was given to Moses.”[#Ex 12.1–20]
7To the people who were present Josiah gave thirty thousand lambs and kids and three thousand calves; these were given from the king’s possessions, as he promised, to the people and the priests and Levites.
8Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the chief officers of the temple, gave to the priests for the Passover two thousand six hundred sheep and three hundred calves.
9And Jeconiah and Shemaiah and his brother Nethanel, and Hashabiah and Ochiel and Joram, captains over thousands, gave the Levites for the Passover five thousand sheep and seven hundred calves.[#2 Chr 35.9]
10This is what took place. The priests and the Levites, having the unleavened bread, stood in proper order according to kindred and the grouping of the ancestral houses, before the people, to make the offering to the Lord as it is written in the book of Moses; this they did in the morning.[#vv 4, 5 ; 1 Esd 5.4; 8.28]
11They roasted the Passover lamb with fire, as required, and they boiled the sacrifices in bronze pots and caldrons, with a pleasing odor, and carried them to all the people.[#Ex 12.8, 9; Deut 16.7; 2 Chr 35.13]
12Afterward they prepared the Passover for themselves and for their kindred the priests, the sons of Aaron,
13because the priests were offering the fat until nightfall, so the Levites prepared it for themselves and for their kindred the priests, the sons of Aaron.
14The temple singers, the sons of Asaph, were in their place according to the arrangement made by David, and also Asaph, Zechariah, and Eddinus, who represented the king.[#1 Chr 6.39; 2 Chr 35.15]
15The gatekeepers were at each gate; no one needed to interrupt his daily duties, for their kindred the Levites prepared the Passover for them.[#1 Chr 26.1–19; 2 Chr 35.15; Lk 1.5, 8]
16So the things that had to do with the sacrifices to the Lord were accomplished that day: the Passover was kept and the sacrifices were offered on the altar of the Lord, according to the command of King Josiah.[#2 Kings 23.21]
17And the people of Israel who were present at that time kept the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread seven days.[#Lk 22.1]
18No Passover like it had been kept in Israel since the times of the prophet Samuel;[#2 Kings 23.22, 23; 2 Chr 35.18]
19none of the kings of Israel had kept such a Passover as was kept by Josiah and the priests and Levites and the people of Judah and all of Israel who were living in Jerusalem.
20In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah this Passover was kept.[#2 Kings 23.23; 2 Chr 35.19]
21And the deeds of Josiah were upright in the sight of the Lord, for his heart was full of godliness.[#2 Kings 23.24, 25]
22In ancient times the events of his reign have been recorded—concerning those who sinned and acted wickedly toward the Lord beyond any other nation or kingdom and how they grieved the Lord deeply, so that the words of the Lord fell upon Israel.[#2 Kings 23.24–27; #1.22 Gk him]
23After all these acts of Josiah, it happened that Pharaoh, king of Egypt, went to make war at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out against him.[#2 Kings 23.29, 30; 2 Chr 35.20–27]
24And the king of Egypt sent word to him, saying, “What have we to do with each other, O king of Judea?
25I was not sent against you by the Lord God, for my war is at the Euphrates. And now the Lord is with me! The Lord is with me, urging me on! Stand aside, and do not oppose the Lord.”[#2 Chr 13.12]
26Josiah, however, did not turn back to his chariot but tried to fight with him and did not heed the words of the prophet Jeremiah from the mouth of the Lord.
27He joined battle with him in the plain of Megiddo, and the commanders came down against King Josiah.
28The king said to his servants, “Take me away from the battle, for I am very weak.” And immediately his servants took him out of the line of battle.
29He got into his second chariot, and after he was brought back to Jerusalem he died and was buried in the tomb of his ancestors.
30In all Judea they mourned for Josiah. The prophet Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, and the principal men, with the women, have made lamentation for him to this day; it was ordained that this should always be done throughout the whole people of Israel.[#2 Chr 35.25; Jer 22.20; #1.30 Or their wives]
31These things are written in the book of the histories of the kings of Judea, and every one of the acts of Josiah and his splendor and his understanding of the law of the Lord and the things that he had done before and these that are now told are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
32The people of the nation took Jeconiah son of Josiah, who was twenty-three years old, and made him king in succession to his father Josiah.[#2 Kings 23.30–35; 2 Chr 36.1–4]
33He reigned three months in Judah and Jerusalem. Then the king of Egypt deposed him from reigning in Jerusalem[#1.33 Other ancient authorities read Israel]
34and fined the nation one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.
35The king of Egypt made his brother Jehoiakim king of Judea and Jerusalem.
36Jehoiakim put the nobles in prison and seized his brother Zarius and brought him back from Egypt.
37Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign in Judea and Jerusalem; he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.[#2 Kings 23.36—24.6; 2 Chr 36.5–8]
38King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came up against him; he bound him with a chain of bronze and took him away to Babylon.
39Nebuchadnezzar also took some holy vessels of the Lord and carried them away and stored them in his temple in Babylon.[#vv 43, 53; Dan 1.2]
40But the things that are reported about Jehoiakim and his uncleanness and impiety are written in the annals of the kings.[#1.40 Gk him]
41His son Jehoiachin became king in his place; when he was made king he was eighteen years old,[#2 Kings 24.8—25.21; 2 Chr 36.9–21]
42and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
43A year later Nebuchadnezzar sent and removed him to Babylon, with the holy vessels of the Lord,[#vv 39, 53]
44and made Zedekiah king of Judea and Jerusalem.[#Jer 52.1]
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old, and he reigned eleven years.
45He also did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and did not heed the words spoken by the prophet Jeremiah from the mouth of the Lord.[#Jer 37.2; 52.2]
46Although King Nebuchadnezzar had made him swear by the name of the Lord, he broke his oath and rebelled; he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart and transgressed the laws of the Lord, the God of Israel.
47Even the leaders of the people and of the priests committed many acts of sacrilege and lawlessness beyond all the unclean deeds of all the nations and polluted the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem—the temple that God had made holy.
48The God of their ancestors sent his messenger to call them back, because he would have spared them and his dwelling place.
49But they mocked his messengers, and whenever the Lord spoke, they scoffed at his prophets, until God, in his anger against his nation because of their ungodly acts, gave the command to bring the kings of the Chaldeans against them.[#Gal 6.7]
50The Chaldeans killed their young men with the sword around their holy temple and did not spare young man or young woman, elder or child, for he gave them all into their hands.[#1.50 Gk virgin]
51They took all the holy vessels of the Lord, great and small, the treasure chests of the Lord, and the royal stores and carried them away to Babylon.[#vv 39, 43]
52They burned the house of the Lord, broke down the walls of Jerusalem, burned its towers with fire,[#2 Kings 25.10; Neh 1.3; 2.13; 1 Esd 6.15]
53and utterly destroyed all its glorious things. Nebuchadnezzar led the survivors away to Babylon with the sword,[#1.53 Gk he]
54and they were servants to him and to his sons until the Persians began to reign, in fulfillment of the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah,[#Jer 25.11; 29.10]
55saying, “Until the land has enjoyed its Sabbaths, it shall keep Sabbath all the time of its desolation until the completion of seventy years.”[#Lev 26.34, 35]