Page 376 - 1599 Geneva Bible

2 Chronicles 34:28 371 2 Chronicles 35:18

heard it, sayth the Lord. 28 Beholde, I will gather hand of Moses. 7 Iosiah also gaue to the people
thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt bee put in sheepe, lambs and kiddes, all for the Passeouer,
thy graue in peace, and thine eyes shall not see euen to all that were present, to the nomber of
all the euill, which I will bring vpon this place, thirtie thousand, and three thousande bullocks:
and vpon the inhabitants of the same. Thus they these were of the Kings substance. 8 And his
brought ye King word againe. 29 Then the King princes offred willingly vnto the people, to the
sent and gathered all the Elders of Iudah and PriestsandtotheLeuites: Hilkiah, andZechariah,
Ierusalem. 30 AndtheKingwentvpintothehouse and Iehiel, rulers of the house of God, gaue vnto
of the Lord, and all the men of Iudah, and the the Priests for the Passeouer, euen two thousand
inhabitants of Ierusalem, and the Priests and the and sixe hundreth sheepe, and three hundreth
Leuites, and all the people from the greatest to bullockes. 9 Conaniah also and Shemaiah and
the smallest, and hee read in their eares all the Nethaneel his brethren, and Hashabiah and Ieiel,
wordes of the booke of the couenant that was and Iozabad, chiefe of the Leuites gaue vnto the
found in the house of the Lord. 31 And the King Leuites for the Passeouer, fiue thousand sheepe,
stood by his pillar, and made a couenant before and fiue hundreth bullockes. 10 Thus the seruice
the Lord, to walke after the Lord, and to keepe was prepared, and the Priests stoode in their
his commandements, and his testimonies, and places, also the Leuites in their orders, according
his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his to the Kings commandement: 11 And they slewe
soule, and that he would accomplish the wordes the Passeouer, and the Priests sprinkled the
of the couenant written in the same booke. 32 And blood with their handes, and the Leuites flayed
he caused all that were found in Ierusalem, and them. 12 And they tooke away from the burnt
Beniamin to stande to it: and the inhabitants offering to giue it according to the deuisions of
of Ierusalem did according to the couenant of the families of the children of the people, to offer
God, euen the God of their fathers. 33 So Iosiah vnto the Lord, as it is written in the booke of
tooke away al the abominations out of all the Moses, and so of the bullockes. 13 And they rosted
countreis that perteined to the children of Israel, the Passeouer with fire, according to ye custome,
and compelled all that were found in Israel, to but the sanctified things they sod in pots, pannes,
serue the Lord their God: so all his dayes they and cauldrons, and distributed them quickely to
turned not backe from the Lord God of their 14
fathers. all the people. Afterwarde also they prepared
for them selues and for the Priestes: for the
35 Priestes the sonnes of Aaron were occupied in
1 Moreouer Iosiah kept a Passeouer vnto the offering of burnt offrings, and the fat vntill night:
Lord in Ierusalem, and they slewe the Passeouer therefore the Leuites prepared for them selues,
and for the Priests the sonnes of Aaron.
And
15
2
in the fourtenth day of the first moneth. And he the singers the sonnes of Asaph stoode in their
appointed the Priestes to their charges, and in- standing according to the commandement of
couraged them to the seruice of the house of the Dauid, and Asaph, and Heman, and Ieduthun the
Lord, And he sayd vnto the Leuites that taught Kings Seer: and the porters at euery gate, who
3
all Israel and were sanctified vnto the Lord, Put might not depart from their seruice: therefore
the holy Arke in the house which Salomon the their brethren the Leuites prepared for them.
sonne of Dauid King of Israel did build: it shalbe 16 So all the seruice of the Lord was prepared
no more a burden vpon your shoulders: serue the same day, to keepe the Passeouer, and to
now the Lord your God and his people Israel, offer burnt offerings vpon the altar of the Lord,
4 And prepare your selues by the houses of your according to the commandement of King Iosiah.
fathers according to your courses, as Dauid the 17 And the children of Israel that were present,
King of Israel hath written, and according to the kept the Passeouer the same time, and the feast
writing of Salomon his sonne, 5 And stande in of the vnleauened bread seuen dayes. 18 And
the Sanctuarie according to the deuision of the there was no Passeouer kept like that, in Israel,
families of your brethren the children of the peo- from the dayes of Samuel the Prophet: neyther
ple, and after the deuision of the familie of the did all the Kings of Israel keepe such a Passeouer
6
Leuites: So kill the Passeouer and sanctifie your as Iosiah kept, and the Priestes and the Leuites,
selues, and prepare your brethren that they may and all Iudah, and Israel that were present, and
doe according to the worde of the Lord by the