2 Chronicles 35

1 and to make: do Josiah in/on/with Jerusalem Passover to/for LORD and to slaughter [the] Passover in/on/with four ten to/for month [the] first

Then Josiah celebrated the Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and the Passover lamb was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month.

2 and to stand: appoint [the] priest upon charge their and to strengthen: strengthen them to/for service: ministry house: temple LORD

He appointed the priests to their duties and encouraged them in the service of the house of the LORD.

3 and to say to/for Levi ([the] to understand *Q(K)*) to/for all Israel [the] holy to/for LORD to give: put [obj] ark [the] holiness in/on/with house: home which to build Solomon son: child David king Israel nothing to/for you burden in/on/with shoulder now to serve: minister [obj] LORD God your and [obj] people his Israel

To the Levites who taught all Israel and were holy to the LORD, Josiah said: “Put the holy ark in the temple built by Solomon son of David king of Israel. It is not to be carried around on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and His people Israel.

4 (and to establish: prepare *Q(K)*) to/for house: household father your like/as division your in/on/with writing David king Israel and in/on/with writing Solomon son: child his

Prepare yourselves by families in your divisions, according to the instructions written by David king of Israel and Solomon his son.

5 and to stand: stand in/on/with Holy Place to/for division house: household [the] father to/for brother: compatriot your son: descendant/people [the] people and division house: household father to/for Levi

Moreover, stand in the Holy Place by the divisions of the families of your kinsmen the lay people, and by the divisions of the families of the Levites.

6 and to slaughter [the] Passover and to consecrate: consecate and to establish: prepare to/for brother: compatriot your to/for to make: do like/as word LORD in/on/with hand: by Moses

Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves, and make preparations for your fellow countrymen to carry out the word of the LORD given by Moses.”

7 and to exalt Josiah to/for son: descendant/people [the] people flock lamb and son: young animal goat [the] all to/for Passover to/for all [the] to find to/for number thirty thousand and cattle three thousand these from property [the] king

From his own flocks and herds Josiah contributed 30,000 lambs and goats plus 3,000 bulls for the Passover offerings for all the people who were present.

8 and ruler his to/for voluntariness to/for people to/for priest and to/for Levi to exalt Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel leader house: temple [the] God to/for priest to give: give to/for Passover thousand and six hundred and cattle three hundred

His officials also contributed willingly to the people and priests and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the administrators of the house of God, gave the priests 2,600 Passover offerings and 300 bulls.

9 (and Conaniah *Q(k)*) and Shemaiah and Nethanel brother: male-sibling his and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad ruler [the] Levi to exalt to/for Levi to/for Passover five thousand and cattle five hundred

Additionally, Conaniah and his brothers Shemaiah and Nethanel, as well as Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, officers of the Levites, donated to the Levites 5,000 Passover offerings and 500 bulls.

10 and to establish: prepare [the] service and to stand: stand [the] priest upon post their and [the] Levi upon division their like/as commandment [the] king

So the service was prepared; the priests stood in their places and the Levites in their divisions according to the king’s command.

11 and to slaughter [the] Passover and to scatter [the] priest from hand: themselves their and [the] Levi to strip

And they slaughtered the Passover lambs, while the priests sprinkled the blood handed to them and the Levites skinned the animals.

12 and to turn aside: turn aside [the] burnt offering to/for to give: give them to/for division to/for house: household father to/for son: descendant/people [the] people to/for to present: bring to/for LORD like/as to write in/on/with scroll: book Moses and so to/for cattle

They set aside the burnt offerings to be given to the divisions of the families of the people to offer to the LORD, as is written in the Book of Moses; and they did the same with the bulls.

13 and to boil [the] Passover in/on/with fire like/as justice: judgement and [the] holiness to boil in/on/with pot and in/on/with pot and in/on/with pot and to run: run to/for all son: descendant/people [the] people

They roasted the Passover animals on the fire according to the regulation, and they boiled the other holy offerings in pots, kettles, and bowls and quickly brought them to all the people.

14 and after to establish: prepare to/for them and to/for priest for [the] priest son: descendant/people Aaron in/on/with to ascend: offer up [the] burnt offering and [the] fat till night and [the] Levi to establish: prepare to/for them and to/for priest son: descendant/people Aaron

Afterward, they made preparations for themselves and for the priests, since the priests, the descendants of Aaron, were offering up burnt offerings and fat until nightfall. So the Levites made preparations for themselves and for the priests, the descendants of Aaron.

15 and [the] to sing son: descendant/people Asaph upon office their like/as commandment David and Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun seer [the] king and [the] gatekeeper to/for gate and gate nothing to/for them to/for to turn aside: depart from upon service their for brother: male-relative their [the] Levi to establish: prepare to/for them

The singers, the descendants of Asaph, were at their stations according to the command of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer. And the gatekeepers at each gate did not need to leave their position, because their fellow Levites made preparations for them.

16 and to establish: prepare all service: ministry LORD in/on/with day [the] he/she/it to/for to make: do [the] Passover and to ascend: offer up burnt offering upon altar LORD like/as commandment [the] king Josiah

So on that day the entire service of the LORD was carried out for celebrating the Passover and offering burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, according to the command of King Josiah.

17 and to make: do son: descendant/people Israel [the] to find [obj] [the] Passover in/on/with time [the] he/she/it and [obj] feast [the] unleavened bread seven day

The Israelites who were present also observed the Passover at that time, as well as the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days.

18 and not to make: do Passover like him in/on/with Israel from day Samuel [the] prophet and all king Israel not to make: do like/as Passover which to make: do Josiah and [the] priest and [the] Levi and all Judah and Israel [the] to find and to dwell Jerusalem

No such Passover had been observed in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel ever observed a Passover like the one that Josiah observed with the priests, the Levites, all Judah, the Israelites who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.

19 in/on/with eight ten year to/for royalty Josiah to make: do [the] Passover [the] this

In the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign, this Passover was observed.

20 after all this which to establish: prepare Josiah [obj] [the] house: home to ascend: rise Neco king Egypt to/for to fight in/on/with Carchemish upon Euphrates and to come out: come to/for to encounter: meet him Josiah

After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, Neco king of Egypt marched up to fight at Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to confront him.

21 and to send: depart to(wards) him messenger to/for to say what? to/for me and to/for you king Judah not upon you you(m. s.) [the] day: today for to(wards) house: home battle my and God to say to/for to dismay me to cease to/for you from God which with me and not to ruin you

But Neco sent messengers to him, saying, “What is the issue between you and me, O king of Judah? I have not come against you today, but I am fighting another dynasty. God told me to hurry; so stop opposing God, who is with me, or He will destroy you!”

22 and not to turn: turn Josiah face: before his from him for to/for to fight in/on/with him to search and not to hear: hear to(wards) word Neco from lip God and to come (in): come to/for to fight in/on/with valley Megiddo

Josiah, however, did not turn away from him; instead, in order to engage him in battle, he disguised himself. He did not listen to Neco’s words from the mouth of God, but went to fight him on the Plain of Megiddo.

23 and to shoot [the] to shoot to/for king Josiah and to say [the] king to/for servant/slave his to pass: bring me for be weak: ill much

There the archers shot King Josiah, who said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am badly wounded!”

24 and to pass: bring him servant/slave his from [the] chariot and to ride him upon chariot [the] second which to/for him and to go: take him Jerusalem and to die and to bury in/on/with grave father his and all Judah and Jerusalem to mourn upon Josiah

So his servants took him out of his chariot, put him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died. And Josiah was buried in the tomb of his fathers, and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for him.

25 and to chant Jeremiah upon Josiah and to say all [the] to sing and [the] to sing in/on/with dirge their upon Josiah till [the] day: today and to give: make them to/for statute: decree upon Israel and look! they to write upon [the] dirge

Then Jeremiah lamented over Josiah, and to this day all the choirs of men and women sing laments over Josiah. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Book of Laments.

26 and remainder word: deed Josiah and kindness his like/as to write in/on/with instruction LORD

As for the rest of the acts of Josiah, along with his deeds of loving devotion according to what is written in the Law of the LORD—

27 and word: deed his [the] first and [the] last look! they to write upon scroll: book king Israel and Judah

his acts from beginning to end—they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.