14:035:011 And they killed the passover, and the priests
sprinkled the
blood
from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.
14:035:012 And 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.
14:035:013 And 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.
14:035:014 And 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.
14:035:015 And 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.
14:035:016 So 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.
14:035:017 And the children of Israel that were present
kept the passover
at
that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven
days.
14:035:018 And 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.
14:035:019 In the eighteenth year of the reign of
Josiah was this
passover
kept.
14:035:020 After all this, when Josiah had prepared
the temple, Necho
king
of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by
Euphrates:
and Josiah went out against him.
14:035:021 But 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.
14:035:022 Nevertheless 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.


