Second Book of Chronicles - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 1008

35——··4 HISTORY OF HOUSE OF DAV1D.—-II. CHRON. 35—-23 Ark to the apartment that Solomon, the sou of David, King of Israel had Let it no more be borne on your shou1ders.——Se1·vc your EVER- Lzvmc; Gon now, with the People of Israel; and arrange yourselves by your Ancestral Houses, according to your Divisions, as recorded by David King of Israel, and by the records of his son Solomon, and attend to your duty by sections of Ancestral Houses, with your brothers, the sons of the People, and the Divisions of the Ancestral Houses of the Levites. So kill the Passover, and consecrate yourselves, and unite with your brothers to practise the Command of the Evnn-Lxvmo, sent by the Hand of Moses. §¤¤biab gihzs u free §§¤¤¤¤im·. }oshiah.then gave to the Children of

his People lambs from the sheep, and young goats, for the Passover, to all present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand oxen. These were the private property of the King. Wha ®ift¤ nf his miuisizrst And his Ministers gave of free will

to the People, the Priests, and the Levites,-— Hilkihu, and Zekarihu, and jekhial, the Leaders of the House of Gon, they gave to the Priests for their Passover two thousand and six hundred (lambs), and three hundred

9 oxen. Konenihu and Shimihu, and xo 11 12 Nathanal, his brother, and Khasha— and five hundred oxen. bihu, and javal, and jozabad, nobles of the Levites, gave to the Levites for their Passover, five thousand (lambs), Thus the Service was prepared, and

the Priests appointed, and the Levites in their Divisions, according to the order ofthe King. And they killed the Passover. Then the Priests sprinkled from their hands, and the Levites stripped, and removed the Burnt- offering that had to be presented by the Sections of Ancestral Houses of the Children of the People, and approached the EVER- Lrvmo, as prescribed in the Book of Moses. And the same with the oxen. They then roasted the Passover with tire, as Decreed, and boiled the Consecra- tions in boilers and cauldrons, and pans, and distributed to all the Chil- prepared for themselves, and for the Priests, because the Priests, the De- scendants of Aaron, were offering Burnt-offerings from the Dawn until night. So the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the Descendants of Aaron. @132 ®l;¤ir iirstnrzb. The Singers, also, the Descendants

of Asaph, and Heman, and jeduthun, the Royal Seer, and the Door- Keepers from Gate to Gate, who could not themselves go away from their duty, like their brothers;-—-the Levites pre- pared for them. They also prepared for all theservices of the Eve R-Livmo on that day, in making the Passover, and offering the Burnbofferings, upon the Altar of the LORD, as King joshiah commanded. Thus the Children of Israel who

were present at that time made the Passover, and the Feast of Unfer- mented Bread for seven days. No Passover like this was made in Israel from the days of Samuel the Preacher, by all the Kings of Israel. They did not make a Passover such as joshiah made, with the Priests and Levites, and all judah and Israel present, with the inhabitants of jerusalem. loshiah made this Passover in the eighteenth year of his reign. 16 18 (610 BAS-) §§l3arul; £zlm inlmhzz §1zhza. After all this vrhen joshiah had 20 repaired the Temple, Neko, King of the Mitzeraim came up to attack Karkemish on the Frath,1 but joshiah went out to oppose him. When he 21 What.is there between you and I, King of judah P-I have not prepared to-clay against you, but against the House I am at war with, and Gon commanded me to make haste.-—Restrain yourself from opposing Gon Who is with me, and He will not destroy you. joshiah, however, would not turn 22 from opposing him, but determined to fight, and would not listen to the statements of Neko from the mouth of the EVER-L1v1NG, but went to battle with him on the plain of Megiddo, where the Archers shot 23 King joshiah. So the King said to Take me to the rear; X Euphrates. dren of the People; and afterwards 1oo8