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 kept a Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem. They killed the Passover 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 set the priests in their offices and encouraged them in the service of the LORD’s house.

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

He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to the LORD, “Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built. It will no longer be a burden 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 after your fathers’ houses by your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of 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

Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of your brothers the children of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a fathers’ house 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

Kill the Passover lamb, sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the LORD’s word 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

Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and young goats, all of them for the Passover offerings, to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bulls. These were of the king’s substance.

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 princes gave a free will offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the rulers of God’s house, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand six hundred small livestock, and three hundred head of cattle.

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

Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small livestock and five hundred head of cattle.

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, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king’s commandment.

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

They killed the Passover lambs, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received from their hands, and the Levites skinned them.

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 removed the burnt offerings, that they might give them according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of the children of the people, to offer to the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. They did the same 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

They roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance. They boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of 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 prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron were busy with offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night. Therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests the sons 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 sons of Asaph, were in their place, according to the commandment of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the gatekeepers were at every gate. They didn’t need to depart from their service, because their brothers the Levites prepared 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 all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the LORD’s altar, according to the commandment 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 children of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread 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

There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet, nor did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept—with the priests, the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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

This Passover was kept in the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah.

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 prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out against 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 he sent ambassadors to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you today, but against the house with which I have war. God has commanded me to make haste. Beware that it is God who is with me, that he not 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

Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and didn’t listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley 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

The archers shot at King Josiah; and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, because I am seriously 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 the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

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

Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel. Behold, they are written in the lamentations.

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

Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and his good deeds, according to that which is written in the LORD’s law,

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

and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.