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chapter 35
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Josias kept a phase to the Lord in Jerusalem, and it was sacrificed on the
fourteenth day of the first month.
2 And he set the priests in their offices, and exhorted
them to minister in the house of the Lord.
3 And he spoke to the Levites, by whose instruction all
Israel was sanctified to the Lord, saying: Put the ark in the sanctuary of the
temple, which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built : for you shall
carry it no more: but minister now to the Lord your God, and to his people
Israel.
4 And prepare yourselves by your houses, and families
according to your courses, as David king of Israel commanded, and Solomon his
son hath written.
5 And serve ye in the sanctuary by the families and
companies of Levi.
6 And being sanctified kill the phase, and prepare your
brethren, that they may do according to the words which the Lord spoke by the
hand of Moses.
7 And Josias gave to all the people that were found
there in the solemnity of the phase, of lambs and of kids of the flocks, and of
other small cattle thirty thousand, and of oxen three thousand, all these were
of the king's substance.
8 And his princes willingly offered what they had
vowed, both to the people and to the priests and the Levites. Moreover Helcias,
and Zacharias, and Jahiel rulers of the house of the Lord, gave to the priests
to keep the phase two thousand six hundred small cattle, and three hundred
oxen.
9 And Chonenias, and Semeias and Nathanael, his
brethren, and Hasabias, and Jehiel, and Jozabad princes of the Levites, gave to
the rest of the Levites to celebrate the phase five thousand small cattle, and
five hundred oxen.
10 And the ministry was prepared, and the priests stood
in their office: the Levites also in their companies, according to the king's
commandment.
11 And the phase was immolated: and the priests
sprinkled the blood with their hand, and the Levites flayed the holocausts:
12 And they separated them to give them by the houses
and families of every one, and to be offered to the Lord, as it is written in
the book of Moses, and with the oxen they did in like manner.
13 And they roasted the phase with fire, according to
that which is written in the law: but the victims of peace offerings they
boiled in caldrons, and kettles, and pots, and they distributed them speedily
among all the people.
14 And afterwards they made ready for themselves, and
for the priests: for the priests were busied in offering of holocausts and the
fat until night: wherefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the
priests the sons of Aaron last.
15 And the singers the sons of Asaph stood in their
order, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Idithun
the prophets of the king: and the porters kept guard at every gate, so as not
to depart one moment from their service: and therefore their brethren the
Levites prepared meats for them.
16 So all the service of the Lord was duly accomplished
that day, both in keeping the phase, and offering holocausts upon the altar of
the Lord, according to the commandment of king Josias.
17 And the children of Israel that were found there,
kept the phase at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
18 There was no phase like to this in Israel, from the
days of Samuel the prophet: neither did any of all the kings of Israel keep
such a phase as Josias kept, with the priests, and the Levites, and all Juda,
and Israel that were found, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias was
this phase celebrated.
20 After that Josias had repaired the temple, Nechao
king of Egypt came up to fight in Charcamis by the Euphrates: and Josias went
out to meet him.
21 But he sent messengers to him, saying: What have I
to do with thee, O king of Juda? I come not against thee this day, but I fight
against another house, to which God hath commanded me to go in haste : forbear
to do against God, who is with me, lest he kill thee.
22 Josias would not return, but prepared to fight against
him, and hearkened not to the words of Nechao from the mouth of God, I but went
to fight in the field of Mageddo.
23 And there he was wounded by the archers, and he said
to his servants: Carry me out of the battle, for I am grievously wounded.
24 And they removed him from the chariot into another,
that followed him after the manner of kings, and they carried him away to
Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in the monument of his fathers, and all
Juda and Jerusalem mourned for him,
25 Particularly Jeremias: whose lamentations for Josias
all the singing men and singing women repeat unto this day, and it became like
a law in Israel: Behold it is found written in the Lamentations.
26 Now the rest of the acts of Josias and of his
mercies, according to what was commanded by the law of the Lord:
27 And his works first and last, are written in the
book of the kings of Juda and Israel.
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