2 Chronicles 35:2

2 And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,

2 Chronicles 35:2 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 35:2

And he set the priests in their charges
In their offices, and in their proper places, to execute them:

and encouraged them to the service of the house of the Lord;
to attend it with cheerfulness and constancy, and do it according to the will of God, promising his favour and protection.

2 Chronicles 35:2 In-Context

1 Moreover, Josiah kept a passover to the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month.

2 And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,

3 And 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,

4 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.

5 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.