2 Chronicles 35:1-9 ▼

1 And Josiah made in Jerusalem a Passover to YHWH, and they slaughtered the Passover on the fourteenth of the first month.

2 And he set the priests over their charges, and he strengthened them for the service of the house of YHWH.

3 And he said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to YHWH, “Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon son of David king of Israel built. It is not a burden to you? on the shoulder. Now serve YHWH your? God and His people Israel.

4 And prepare by the house of your? fathers, according to your? divisions, by the writing of David king of Israel and by the writing of Solomon his son.

5 And stand in the Holy Place according to the divisions of the houses of the fathers of your? brothers, the sons of the people, and by the division of the house of a father of the Levites.

6 And slaughter the Passover, and consecrate yourselves, and prepare them for your? brothers, that they may do according to the word of YHWH by the hand of Moses.”

7 And Josiah gave to the sons of the people from the flock of lambs and sons of female goats, all for the Passovers for all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, as well as three thousand cattle; these were from the possessions of the king.

8 And his leaders lifted up for a freewill offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passovers two thousand and six hundred and three hundred bulls.

9 And Conaniah, and Shemaiah and Nethanel his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chiefs of the Levites, lifted up to the Levites for the Passovers five thousand and five hundred bulls.