2 Chronicles 35:10-20

10 So the service was prepared, and ¹the priests stood at their stations and the Levites by their divisions according to the king's command.

11 ²They slaughtered the Passover animals, and while ³the priests sprinkled the blood received from their hand, ⁴the Levites skinned them.

12 Then they removed the burnt offerings that they might give them to the sections of the fathers' households of the lay people to present to the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. They did this also with the bulls.

13 So ⁵they roasted the Passover animals on the fire according to the ordinance, and they boiled ⁶the holy things in pots, in kettles, in pans, and carried them speedily to all the lay people.

14 Afterwards they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.

15 The singers, the sons of Asaph, were also at their stations ⁷according to the command of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and ⁸the gatekeepers at each gate did not have to depart from their service, because the Levites their brethren prepared for them.

16 So all the service of the LORD was prepared on that day to celebrate the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD according to the command of King Josiah.

17 Thus ⁹the sons of Israel who were present celebrated the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days.

18 ¹⁰There had not been celebrated a Passover like it in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet; nor had any of the kings of Israel celebrated such a Passover as Josiah did with the priests, the Levites, all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

19 In the eighteenth * year of Josiah's reign this Passover was celebrated.

Josiah Dies in Battle

20 ¹¹After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, Neco king of Egypt came up to make war at ¹²Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to engage him.

2 Chronicles 35:10-20 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 35

In this chapter we have an account of the keeping of the passover and its preparation, for which the priests and Levites were ordered to prepare, and to which Josiah, and his princes, gave liberally, and such an one was kept as had not been for ages past, 2Ch 35:1-19, and of Josiah's rash engagement in battle with the king of Egypt, in which he was slain, 2Ch 35:20-23 and of the great lamentations that were made for him, 2Ch 35:24-27.

Cross References

• 1. 2 Chronicles 35:5
• 2. 2 Chronicles 35:1, 6
• 3. 2 Chronicles 29:22
• 4. 2 Chronicles 29:34
• 5. Exodus 12:8, 9
• 6. Leviticus 6:28
• 7. 1 Chronicles 25:1
• 8. 1 Chronicles 26:12-19
• 9. Exodus 12:1-20; 2 Chronicles 30:21
• 10. 2 Kings 23:21; 2 Chronicles 30:5
• 11. 2 Kings 23:29, 30
• 12. Isaiah 10:9; Jeremiah 46:2

Footnotes

• [a]. I.e. the Levites
• [b]. So with Gr
• [c]. Lit "house"