Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month. Exo 12:6Num 9:32Ki 23:21-23Ezr 6:192Ch 30:1-27Deu 16:1-8Ezk 45:21 And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD, 2Ch 31:21Ch 22:191Ch 24:1-312Ch 23:182Ch 23:82Ch 29:5-11Ezr 6:18Num 18:5-7 And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel, 1Ch 23:262Ch 17:8-92Ch 30:22Deu 33:10Mal 2:72Ch 5:72Co 4:5Num 16:9-10 And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son. 2Ch 8:141Ch 23:1-261Ch 24:11Ch 9:10-34Neh 11:10-20 And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the division of the families of the Levites. 1 2 Psa 134:1Ezr 6:18Psa 135:2 So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses. 2Ch 29:52Ch 29:15Heb 9:13-142Ch 30:15-19Exo 12:21-22Exo 12:6Ezr 6:20-21Gen 35:2 And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king’s substance. 3 1Ki 8:632Ch 30:241Ch 29:32Ch 31:32Ch 7:8-10Ezk 45:17Isa 32:8 And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen. 4 2Ch 29:31-331Ch 24:4-51Ch 29:171Ch 29:6-91Ch 9:202Ch 34:14-202Co 8:122Co 9:7 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen. 5 2Ch 31:12Isa 1:10-15Jer 3:10Jer 7:21-28Mic 6:6-8 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king’s commandment. 2Ch 30:16Ezr 6:182Ch 35:4-5 And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them. 2Ch 29:342Ch 29:22-242Ch 30:16Heb 9:21-22Lev 1:5-6Num 18:3Num 18:7 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. Lev 3:14-16Lev 3:3Lev 3:5Lev 3:9-11 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. 6 Exo 12:8-91Sa 2:13-15Deu 16:7Lev 6:28Lam 1:12-13Num 6:19Psa 22:14Rom 12:11 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. Act 6:2-4 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. 7 1Ch 25:1-71Ch 26:12-191Ch 9:17-191Ch 16:41-421Ch 23:52Ch 29:25-26Psa 77:1Psa 78:1 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. And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. 8 Exo 12:15-201Co 5:7-82Ch 30:21-23Deu 16:3-4Deu 16:8Exo 13:6-7Exo 23:15Exo 34:18 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. 9 2Ch 30:52Ki 23:21-232Ch 30:26-27 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.
¶ After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him. 10 2Ki 23:29-30Isa 10:9Jer 46:2-12 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. 11 2Ch 25:192Ki 18:252Sa 16:10Isa 36:10Jhn 2:4Mat 8:29 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. Jdg 5:192Ch 18:291Ki 22:302Ch 35:211Ki 14:21Ki 22:342Ch 18:4-62Ki 23:30 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded. 12 1Ki 22:342Ki 8:292Ki 9:24Gen 49:23Lam 3:132Ch 18:33 His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. 13 Zec 12:112Ki 23:302Ch 34:28Ecc 8:14Ecc 9:1-2Psa 36:6Gen 41:43
¶ And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations. Jer 22:10Lam 4:20Jer 9:17-21Job 3:8Mat 9:23Jer 22:20Ecc 12:5 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the LORD, 14 2Ch 31:202Ch 32:32 And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. 2Ch 20:342Ch 24:272Ch 25:262Ch 26:222Ch 32:322Ch 33:192Ki 10:342Ki 16:19