1Josiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem: and they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

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Exodus 12:6, Exodus 12:6, Numbers 9:3, Numbers 9:3, Ezra 6:19

2He set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the Lord.

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2 Chronicles 31:2, 2 Chronicles 31:2, 1 Chronicles 22:19, 1 Chronicles 22:19, 2 Chronicles 23:8

3He 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. There shall no more be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve the Lord your God, and his people Israel.

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1 Chronicles 23:26, 1 Chronicles 23:26, 2 Chronicles 30:22, Deuteronomy 33:10, 2 Chronicles 17:8

4Prepare 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.

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2 Chronicles 8:14, 2 Chronicles 8:14, 1 Chronicles 23:1, 1 Chronicles 23:26, 1 Chronicles 23:1

5Stand 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.

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Psalms 134:1, Psalms 134:1, Psalms 135:2, Ezra 6:18, Psalms 135:2

6Kill the Passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the word of the Lord by Moses."

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2 Chronicles 29:5, 2 Chronicles 29:5, Hebrews 9:13, Hebrews 9:14, 2 Chronicles 29:15

7Josiah 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.

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1 Kings 8:63, 1 Kings 8:63, 2 Chronicles 30:24, 2 Chronicles 30:24, 1 Chronicles 29:3

8His princes gave for a freewill offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of God's house, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small livestock, and three hundred head of cattle.

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2 Chronicles 29:31, 2 Chronicles 29:33, 2 Chronicles 29:31, 2 Chronicles 29:33, 1 Chronicles 29:6

9Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and 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.

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Isaiah 1:10, Isaiah 1:15, Micah 6:6, Micah 6:8, 2 Chronicles 31:12

10So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king's commandment.

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Ezra 6:18, 2 Chronicles 30:16, Ezra 6:18, 2 Chronicles 30:16, 2 Chronicles 35:4

11They killed the Passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received of their hand, and the Levites flayed them.

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2 Chronicles 29:34, 2 Chronicles 29:34, Leviticus 1:5, Leviticus 1:6, Numbers 18:7

12They 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. So they did with the cattle.

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Leviticus 3:14, Leviticus 3:16, Leviticus 3:5, Leviticus 3:9, Leviticus 3:11

13They roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance: and the holy offerings boiled they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of the people.

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Exodus 12:8, Exodus 12:9, Exodus 12:8, Exodus 12:9, 1 Samuel 2:13

14Afterward 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.

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Acts 6:2, Acts 6:4, Acts 6:2, Acts 6:4

15The 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 were at every gate: they did not need to depart from their service; for their brothers the Levites prepared for them.

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1 Chronicles 9:17, 1 Chronicles 9:19, 1 Chronicles 26:12, 1 Chronicles 26:19, 1 Chronicles 25:1

16So all the service of the Lord was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the Lord, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

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17The children of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

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Exodus 12:15, Exodus 12:20, Exodus 12:15, Exodus 12:20, Numbers 28:16

18There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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2 Chronicles 30:5, 2 Kings 23:21, 2 Kings 23:23, 2 Chronicles 30:5, 2 Kings 23:21

19In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this Passover kept.

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20After 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.

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2 Kings 23:29, 2 Kings 23:30, Isaiah 10:9, 2 Kings 23:29, 2 Kings 23:30

21But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, "What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you this day, 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."

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2 Kings 18:25, 2 Chronicles 25:19, 2 Kings 18:25, 2 Chronicles 25:19, John 2:4

22Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

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Judges 5:19, Judges 5:19, 2 Chronicles 18:29, 2 Chronicles 18:29, 2 Chronicles 35:21

23The archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, "Take me away, because I am seriously wounded!"

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1 Kings 22:34, 1 Kings 22:34, 2 Chronicles 18:33, 2 Kings 8:29, Lamentations 3:13

24So 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.

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Zechariah 12:11, Zechariah 12:11, 2 Kings 23:30, 2 Kings 23:30, Ecclesiastes 9:1

25Jeremiah 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: and behold, they are written in the lamentations.

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Jeremiah 22:10, Lamentations 4:20, Jeremiah 22:10, Lamentations 4:20, Job 3:8

26Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds, according to that which is written in the law of the Lord,

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2 Chronicles 32:32, 2 Chronicles 31:20, 2 Chronicles 32:32, 2 Chronicles 31:20

27and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

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2 Kings 16:19, 2 Chronicles 25:26, 2 Chronicles 24:27, 2 Kings 10:34, 2 Chronicles 32:32