2 Chronicles 35:2-5

2 He set the priests in their offices and ¹encouraged them in the service of the house of the LORD.

3 He also said to ²the Levites who taught all Israel and who were holy to the LORD, "Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built; ³it will be a burden on your shoulders no longer. Now serve the LORD your God and His people Israel.

4 "⁴Prepare yourselves by your fathers' households in your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel and ⁵according to the writing of his son Solomon.

5 "Moreover, ⁶stand in the holy place according to the sections of the fathers' households of your brethren the lay people, and according to the Levites, by division of a father's household.

2 Chronicles 35:2-5 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 29:11
• 2. 2 Chronicles 17:8, 9; Nehemiah 8:7
• 3. 1 Chronicles 23:26
• 4. 1 Chronicles 9:10-13
• 5. 2 Chronicles 8:14
• 6. Ezra 6:18

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "sons of the people," and so throughout the ch