He said to the Levites, consecrated to GOD, who taught all Israel, “Put the Holy Ark in the House that Solomon son of David, king of Israel, built; as you no longer carry it on your shoulders, see now to the service of the ETERNAL your God and Israel—God’s people,
and dispose yourselves by clans according to your divisions, as prescribed in the writing of King David of Israel and in the document of his son Solomon,
Josiah donated to the people small cattle—lambs and goats, all for passover sacrifices for all present—to the sum of 30,000, and large cattle, 3,000—these from the property of the king.
His officers gave a freewill offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the chiefs of the House of God, donated to the priests for passover sacrifices 2,600 [small cattle] and 300 large cattle.
Conaniah, Shemaiah, and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, officers of the Levites, donated 5,000 [small cattle] and 500 large cattle to the Levites for passover sacrifices.
They removed the parts to be burnt, distributing them to divisions of the people by clans, and making the sacrifices to GOD, as prescribed in the scroll of Moses; they did the same for the cattle.
They roasted the passover sacrifice in fire, as prescribed, while the sacred offerings they cooked in pots, cauldrons, and pans, and conveyed them with dispatch to all the people.
Afterward they provided for themselves and the priests, for the Aaronite priests were busy offering the burnt offerings and the fatty parts until nightfall, so the Levites provided both for themselves and for the Aaronite priests.
The Asaphite singers were at their stations, by command of David and Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, the seer of the king; and the gatekeepers were at each and every gate. They did not have to leave their tasks, because their Levite brothers provided for them.
The entire service of GOD was arranged well that day, to keep the Passover and to make the burnt offerings on the altar of GOD, according to the command of King Josiah.
Since the time of the prophet Samuel, no Passover like that one had ever been kept in Israel; none of the kings of Israel had kept a Passover like the one kept by Josiah and the priests and the Levites and all Judah and Israel there present and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ולאנעשה
462
פסח
148
כמהו
71
בישראל
543
מימי
100
שמואל
377
הנביא
68
וכלמלכי
156
ישראללאעשו
948
כפסח
168
אשרעשה
876
יאשיהו
332
והכהנים
136
והלוים
97
וכליהודה
86
וישראל
547
הנמצא
186
ויושבי
334
ירושלםס
646
II Chronicles 35:19
Gematria: 2786
בשמונהעשרהשנהלמלכותיאשיהונעשההפסחהזה
That Passover was kept in the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah.
After all this furbishing of the temple by Josiah, King Necho of Egypt came up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out against him.
[Necho] sent messengers to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, king of Judah? I do not march against you this day but against the kingdom that wars with me, and it is God’s will that I hurry. Refrain, then, from interfering with God—who is with me—that you not be destroyed.”
But Josiah would not let him alone; instead, he donned [his armor]bhe donned [his armor] With Targum. to fight him, heedless of Necho’s words from the mouth of God; and he came to fight in the plain of Megiddo.
His servants carried him out of his chariot and put him in the wagon of his second-in-command, and conveyed him to Jerusalem. There he died, and was buried in the grave of his ancestors, and all Judah and Jerusalem went into mourning over Josiah.
Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah that all the singers, male and female, recited in their laments for Josiah, as is done to this day; they became customary in Israel and were incorporated into the laments.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויקונן
222
ירמיהו
271
עליאשיהו
432
ויאמרו
263
כלהשריםוהשרות
1522
בקינותיהם
623
עליאשיהו
432
עדהיום
135
ויתנום
512
לחק
138
עלישראל
641
והנם
101
כתובים
478
עלהקינות
671
II Chronicles 35:26
Gematria: 2740
ויתרדברייאשיהווחסדיוככתובבתורתיהוה
The other events of Josiah’s reign and his faithful deeds, in accord with the Teaching of GOD,