1Moreover Josiah kept a passover to the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.stylusExodus 12:6, Exodus 12:6, Numbers 9:3, Numbers 9:3, Ezra 6:192And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,stylus2 Chronicles 31:2, 2 Chronicles 31:2, 1 Chronicles 22:19, 1 Chronicles 22:19, 2 Chronicles 23:83And said to the Levites that 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 shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel,stylus1 Chronicles 23:26, 1 Chronicles 23:26, 2 Chronicles 30:22, Deuteronomy 33:10, 2 Chronicles 17:84And 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.stylus2 Chronicles 8:14, 2 Chronicles 8:14, 1 Chronicles 23:1, 1 Chronicles 23:26, 1 Chronicles 23:15And 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.stylusPsalms 134:1, Psalms 134:1, Psalms 135:2, Ezra 6:18, Psalms 135:26So 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.stylus2 Chronicles 29:5, 2 Chronicles 29:5, Hebrews 9:13, Hebrews 9:14, 2 Chronicles 29:157And 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 cattle: these were of the king’s substance.stylus1 Kings 8:63, 1 Kings 8:63, 2 Chronicles 30:24, 2 Chronicles 30:24, 1 Chronicles 29:38And his princes gave willingly 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 passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.stylus2 Chronicles 29:31, 2 Chronicles 29:33, 2 Chronicles 29:31, 2 Chronicles 29:33, 1 Chronicles 29:69Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave to the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.stylusIsaiah 1:10, Isaiah 1:15, Micah 6:6, Micah 6:8, 2 Chronicles 31:1210So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king’s commandment.stylusEzra 6:18, 2 Chronicles 30:16, Ezra 6:18, 2 Chronicles 30:16, 2 Chronicles 35:411And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them .stylus2 Chronicles 29:34, 2 Chronicles 29:34, Leviticus 1:5, Leviticus 1:6, Numbers 18:712And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer to the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen.stylusLeviticus 3:14, Leviticus 3:16, Leviticus 3:5, Leviticus 3:9, Leviticus 3:1113And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings they boiled in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided them speedily among all the people.stylusExodus 12:8, Exodus 12:9, Exodus 12:8, Exodus 12:9, 1 Samuel 2:1314And afterwards they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.stylusActs 6:2, Acts 6:4, Acts 6:2, Acts 6:415And 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.stylus1 Chronicles 9:17, 1 Chronicles 9:19, 1 Chronicles 26:12, 1 Chronicles 26:19, 1 Chronicles 25:116So 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.stylus17And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.stylusExodus 12:15, Exodus 12:20, Exodus 12:15, Exodus 12:20, Numbers 28:1618And there was no passover like 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.stylus2 Chronicles 30:5, 2 Kings 23:21, 2 Kings 23:23, 2 Chronicles 30:5, 2 Kings 23:2119In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.stylus20After 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.stylus2 Kings 23:29, 2 Kings 23:30, Isaiah 10:9, 2 Kings 23:29, 2 Kings 23:3021But 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 with which I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he may not destroy thee.stylus2 Kings 18:25, 2 Chronicles 25:19, 2 Kings 18:25, 2 Chronicles 25:19, John 2:422Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not to the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.stylusJudges 5:19, Judges 5:19, 2 Chronicles 18:29, 2 Chronicles 18:29, 2 Chronicles 35:2123And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Take me away; for I am grievously wounded.stylus1 Kings 22:34, 1 Kings 22:34, 2 Chronicles 18:33, 2 Kings 8:29, Lamentations 3:1324His 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.stylusZechariah 12:11, Zechariah 12:11, 2 Kings 23:30, 2 Kings 23:30, Ecclesiastes 9:125And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women have spoken of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.stylusJeremiah 22:10, Lamentations 4:20, Jeremiah 22:10, Lamentations 4:20, Job 3:826Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the LORD,stylus2 Chronicles 32:32, 2 Chronicles 31:20, 2 Chronicles 32:32, 2 Chronicles 31:2027And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.stylus2 Kings 16:19, 2 Chronicles 25:26, 2 Chronicles 24:27, 2 Kings 10:34, 2 Chronicles 32:32