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New Etext of Bible eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,609 pages of information about New Etext of Bible.

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.

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