2 Chronicles 35 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And Yoshiyahu performed a Passover to יהוה  in Yerushalayim, and they slaughtered the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

² And he set the priests in their duties and strengthened them for the service of the House of יהוה,

³ and said to the Lĕ

⁴ and prepare by the fathers’ houses, according to your divisions, by the writing of Dawiḏ

⁵ “And stand in the set-apart place by the divisions of the fathers’ houses of your brothers the lay people, and the portion of the father’s house of the Lĕ

⁶ “And slaughter the Passover, and set yourselves apart, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the word of יהוה  by the hand of Mosheh.”

⁷ And Yoshiyahu gave the lay people lambs and young goats from the flock, all for Passover offerings for everyone present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand cattle – these were from the sovereign’s possessions.

⁸ And his leaders contributed a voluntary offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Lĕ

⁹ and Konanyahu, his brothers Shemayahu and Nethanĕ

¹⁰ And the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their places, and the Lĕ

¹¹ and they slaughtered the Passover. And the priests sprinkled out of their hands, while the Lĕ

¹² And they removed the burnt offerings, to give them to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of the lay people, to bring to יהוה, as it is written in the Book of Mosheh, and the same with the cattle.

¹³ So they roasted the Passover offerings with fire according to the right-ruling, and they boiled the set-apart offerings in pots, and in cauldrons, and in bowls, and brought them speedily to all the lay people.

¹⁴ And afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the sons of Aharon, were offering burnt offerings and fat until night. So the Lĕ

¹⁵ And the singers, the sons of Asaph, were in their places, according to the command of Dawiḏ

¹⁶ And all the service of יהוה  was prepared that day, to perform the Passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of יהוה, according to the command of Sovereign Yoshiyahu.

¹⁷ And the children of Yisra’ĕ

¹⁸ There had not been a Passover performed in Yisra’ĕ

¹⁹ In the eighteenth year of the reign of Yoshiyahu this Passover was performed.

²⁰ After all this, when Yoshiyahu had prepared the House, Neḵ

²¹ And he sent messengers to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, sovereign of Yehuḏ

²² However, Yoshiyahu would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself to fight against him, and did not listen to the words of Neḵ

²³ And the archers shot at Sovereign Yoshiyahu. And the sovereign said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am severely wounded.”

²⁴ And his servants took him out of that chariot and put him in the second chariot that he had, and they brought him to Yerushalayim. And he died, and was buried in one of the tombs of his fathers. And all Yehuḏ

²⁵ And Yirmeyahu lamented for Yoshiyahu. And to this day all the singing men and the singing women speak of Yoshiyahu in their lamentations, and made it a law in Yisra’ĕ

²⁶ And the rest of the acts of Yoshiyahu and his kindness, according to what was written in the Torah of יהוה,

²⁷ and his acts from the first to the last, see, they are written in the book of the sovereigns of Yisra’ĕ