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

Josiah [commanded that the people should] celebrate the Passover Festival to honor Yahweh in Jerusalem. So they slaughtered the lambs for the Passover [Festival] at the end of March.

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

Josiah assigned to the priests the tasks that they should perform at the temple and encouraged them to do their work well.

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

The [other] descendants of Levi were the ones who taught all the Israeli people; they had been dedicated to serve Yahweh. Josiah said to them, “Put the Sacred Chest in the temple that [the workers of] David’s son [King] Solomon of Israel built. But [carry it on poles; ] do not carry it on your shoulders. And do your your work well for Yahweh your God and for his Israeli people.

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

Divide yourselves into clans, obeying the instructions that King David and his son Solomon wrote.

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

Then stand in the temple, with one group of the descendants of Levi to help each clan of the people [when they bring their offerings to the temple].

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 lambs for the Passover [Festival]. Perform the rituals to cause yourselves to be acceptable to Yahweh for doing this work. Prepare the sacrifices, doing what Yahweh told Moses to tell you that you should do.”

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

Josiah provided [from his own flocks and herds] 30,000 sheep and goats for the Passover sacrifices.

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 voluntarily contributed animals for the people and the priests and the [other] descendants of Levi. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the officials who were in charge of the temple, gave to the priests 2,600 lambs and 300 cattle to be sacrifices for the Passover.

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

And Conaniah along with his [younger] brothers Shemaiah and Nethanel, and Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, the leaders of the [other] descendants of Levi, provided 5,000 lambs and 500 cattle for the other descendants of Levi, to be sacrifices for the Passover.

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

Everything [for the Passover] was arranged: The priests and the other descendants of Levi stood in their places in their groups, like the king had commanded.

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

Then they slaughtered the Passover lambs. The priests sprinkled the blood [from the bowls] that were handed to them, while the [other] descendants of Levi removed the skins from 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 animals to be completely burned on the altar, in order to give them to the various family groups to offer to Yahweh, obeying the instructions that were written in the laws God gave Moses. They did the same thing with the cattle.

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

Obeying those regulations, they roasted the lambs for the Passover over the fire. And they boiled the [meat of the] sacred offerings in pots and kettles and pans, and served the meat immediately to all the people [who were there].

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

After that, they prepared meat for themselves and for the priests, because the priests were busy until nighttime, sacrificing the offerings to be completely burned and burning the fat parts of the offerings. So the [other] descendants of Levi prepared meat for themselves and for the priests, who were descendants of Aaron, [the first Supreme Priest].

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 musicians, who were descendants of Asaph, stood in their places, as King David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s prophet had commanded. The men who guarded the gates [of the temple] did not need to leave their places, because their fellow descendants of Levi prepared food for them to eat.

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 everything that needed to done for worshiping Yahweh was done. They celebrated the Passover [Festival], and they presented offerings to be completely burned on the altar, which was what Josiah had commanded.

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 Israelis who were there celebrated the Passover [Festival] on that day, and for seven days they celebrated the Festival of [Eating] Unleavened Bread.

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

The Passover [Festival] had not been celebrated like that in Israel since the time that the prophet Samuel lived. None of the other kings of Israel had ever celebrated the Passover like Josiah did, along with the priests, the other descendants of Levi, and all [the other people of] Judah and Israel who were there with the people who lived in Jerusalem.

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

They celebrated this Passover Festival when Josiah had been ruling for almost 18 years.

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 Josiah had done all those things to [restore the worship at] the temple, King Neco of Egypt went [with his army] to attack Carchemish [city] alongside the Euphrates [River], and Josiah marched [with his army] to fight against them.

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

Neco sent some messengers to Josiah, to tell him, “You are the king of Judah, and there is certainly no quarrel between you and me. My army is not attacking you people; we are attacking another army, [the army of Babylonia]. God has told me to hurry. So stop opposing God, who is for me. If you do not stop, God will get rid of 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

But Josiah would not pay attention to him. Instead, he disguised himself in order to be able to attack [the army of Egypt without anyone recognizing him]. He did not pay any attention to what God had told Neco to say. Instead, he [and his army] went to fight Neco’s army at 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

Some Egyptian archers shot King Josiah. He told his officers, “Take me away from here because 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 they took him out of his chariot and put him in another chariot that he had brought with him, and they took him to Jerusalem, where he died. He was buried in the tombs where his ancestors [had been buried], and all [the people of] Jerusalem and [other places in] Judah 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

[The prophet] Jeremiah composed a song to mourn for Josiah, and all the men and women singers in Israel still mourn for Josiah by singing that song. That became a custom in Israel; the words of that song are written in a scroll of funeral songs.

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

A record of the other things that happened while Josiah ruled, from the time he started to rule until he died, including how he faithfully honored God by obeying everything that was written in the laws of Yahweh, is in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Israel and Judah’.

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