II Chronicles 35 · דברי הימים ב

Moreover Yoshiyyahu kept a passover to the Lord in Yerushalayim: and they killed the paschal lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month.

And he set the priests in their watches, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the Lord,

and he said to the Levites who taught all Yisra᾽el, who were holy to the Lord, Put the holy ark in the house which Shelomo the son of David king of Yisra᾽el did build; you need no longer carry it upon your shoulders: serve now the Lord your God, and his people Yisra᾽el,

and prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, according to your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Yisra᾽el, and according to the writing of Shelomo his son.

And stand in the holy place according to the sections of the families of the fathers’ houses of your brethren the people, and according to the division of the families of the Levites.

So kill the paschal lamb, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Moshe.

And Yoshiyyahu gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the paschal offerings, for all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king’s substance.

And his princes gave willingly to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Ḥilqiyya and Zekharya and Yeĥi᾽el, rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the paschal offerings two thousand six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.

And Kananyahu, and Shema῾yahu, and Netan᾽el, his brethren, and Ḥashavyahu, and Ye῾i᾽el, and Yozavad, chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for paschal offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.

So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions, according to the king’s commandment.

And they killed the paschal lambs, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.

And before they gave them to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of the people, they set aside the burnt offering, to offer to the Lord, as it is written in the book of Moshe. And so they did with the oxen.

And they roasted the paschal lamb with fire according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings they boiled in pots, and in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them swiftly among all the people.

And afterwards they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aharon were busy offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aharon.

And the singers the sons of Asaf were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaf, and Heman, and Yedutun the king’s seer; and the gatekeepers were posted at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

So all the service of the Lord was prepared on the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the Lord, according to the commandment of king Yoshiyyahu.

And the children of Yisra᾽el who were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread for seven days.

And there was no passover like that kept in Yisra᾽el from the days of Shemu᾽el the prophet; nor did any of the kings of Yisra᾽el keep such a passover as Yoshiyyahu kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Yehuda and Yisra᾽el that were present, and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim.

In the eighteenth year of the reign of Yoshiyyahu was this passover kept.

After all this, when Yoshiyyahu had prepared the temple, Nekho king of Miżrayim came up to fight against Karkemish by Perat: and Yoshiyyahu went out against him.

But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Yehuda? I come not against thee this day, but against the house with which I am at war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear from meddling with God, who is with me, so that he does not destroy thee.

Nevertheless Yoshiyyahu would not turn his face from him, but he sought an opportunity to fight with him, and he did not hearken to the words of Nekho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

And the archers shot at king Yoshiyyahu; and the king said to his servants. Get me away; for I am grievously wounded.

So his servants took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Yerushalayim, and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. And all Yehuda and Yerushalayim mourned for Yoshiyyahu.

And Yirmeyahu lamented for Yoshiyyahu: and all the singing men and the singing women spoke of Yoshiyyahu in their laments to this day, and made them an ordinance in Yisra᾽el: and, behold, they are written in the laments.

Now the rest of the acts of Yoshiyyahu, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the Tora of the Lord,

and his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Yisra᾽el and Yehuda.