2 Chronicles 35
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Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Josiah The whole solemnity was performed with great exactness according to the law, and upon this account there was none like it since Samuel's time; for even in Hezekiah's passover there were several irregularities. Bp. Patrick observes, that in this also it exceeded the other passovers which preceding things had kept, that though Josiah was by no means so rich as David, or Solomon, of Jehoshaphat, yet he furnished the congregation with beasts for sacrifice, both paschal and eucharistical, at his own proper cost and charge, which was more than any king ever did before.

2 Chronicles 30:1-27 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also …

2 Kings 23:21-23 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover …

the fourteenth

Exodus 12:6 And you shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month…

Numbers 9:3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, you shall keep it in …

Deuteronomy 16:1-8 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover to the LORD your God…

Ezra 6:19 And the children of the captivity kept the passover on the fourteenth …

Ezekiel 45:21 In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, you shall …

Josiah's solemnization of the passover, which is merely alluded to at

2 Kings 23:21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover …

And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,
And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel,
And 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.

the houses

1 Chronicles 9:10-34 And of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin…

Nehemiah 11:10-20 Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin…

after your courses. The regulations formed by David, and established by Solomon, concerning the courses of the priests and Levites, were committed to writing, and preserved, for them to refer to continually. Josiah, as well as Hezekiah, required the priests and levites to attend to their several duties, and encouraged them therein, but he neither added, altered, not retrenched anything: he merely enforced what had been established in the law, and in the regulations made by David and the contemporary prophets: ` the commandment of the king...was by the word of the Lord.'

1 Chronicles 23:1-26:32 So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king …

and according

2 Chronicles 8:14 And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the …

And 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.
So 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.
And 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 bullocks: these were of the king's substance.
And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.

his princes

2 Chronicles 29:31-33 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now you have consecrated yourselves …

1 Chronicles 29:6-9,17 Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel …

Ezra 1:6 And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels …

Ezra 2:68,69 And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house …

Ezra 7:16 And all the silver and gold that you can find in all the province …

Ezra 8:25-35 And weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even …

Nehemiah 7:70-72 And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the work. The Tirshatha …

Psalm 45:12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich …

Acts 2:44,45 And all that believed were together, and had all things common…

Acts 4:34,35 Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were …

gave [heb] offered
willingly

2 Corinthians 8:12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to …

2 Corinthians 9:7 Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give; …

Hilkiah

2 Chronicles 34:14-20 And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house …

rulers

1 Chronicles 9:20 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time past, …

1 Chronicles 24:4,5 And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of …

Jeremiah 29:25,26 Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying…

Acts 4:1 And as they spoke to the people, the priests, and the captain of …

Acts 5:26 Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without …

Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover 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 courses, according to the king's commandment.
And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.
And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen.
And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided them speedily among all the people.
And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.
And 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.
So 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.
And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
And there was no passover like to 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.

there was no passover
Not one on purer principles, more heartily joined in by the people present, more literally or exactly consecrated, according to the law, or more religiously observed. The words do not refer to the number present, but to the manner and spirit.

2 Chronicles 30:5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all …

2 Kings 23:21-23 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover …

neither did

2 Chronicles 30:26,27 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon …

In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.
After 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.
But 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 wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.
Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.
His 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.
And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the LORD,
And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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