2├╚ 35:1 ═OREOVER ╩OSIAH KEPT A PASSOVER UNTO THE ╠╧╥─ IN ╩ERUSALEM: AND THEY KILLED THE PASSOVER ON THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH.
2├╚ 35:2 ┴ND HE SET THE PRIESTS IN THEIR CHARGES, AND ENCOURAGED THEM TO THE SERVICE OF THE HOUSE OF THE ╠╧╥─,
2├╚ 35:3 ┴ND SAID UNTO THE ╠EVITES THAT TAUGHT ALL ╔SRAEL, WHICH WERE HOLY UNTO THE ╠╧╥─, ╨UT THE HOLY ARK IN THE HOUSE WHICH ╙OLOMON THE SON OF ─AVID KING OF ╔SRAEL DID BUILD; IT SHALL NOT BE A BURDEN UPON YOUR SHOULDERS: SERVE NOW THE ╠╧╥─ YOUR ╟OD, AND HIS PEOPLE ╔SRAEL,
2├╚ 35:4 ┴ND PREPARE YOURSELVES BY THE HOUSES OF YOUR FATHERS, AFTER YOUR COURSES, ACCORDING TO THE WRITING OF ─AVID KING OF ╔SRAEL, AND ACCORDING TO THE WRITING OF ╙OLOMON HIS SON.
2├╚ 35:5 ┴ND 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 ╠EVITES.
2├╚ 35:6 ╙O KILL THE PASSOVER, AND SANCTIFY YOURSELVES, AND PREPARE YOUR BRETHREN, THAT THEY MAY DO ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE ╠╧╥─ BY THE HAND OF ═OSES.
2├╚ 35:7 ┴ND ╩OSIAH 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.
2├╚ 35:8 ┴ND HIS PRINCES GAVE WILLINGLY UNTO THE PEOPLE, TO THE PRIESTS, AND TO THE ╠EVITES: ╚ILKIAH AND ┌ECHARIAH AND ╩EHIEL, RULERS OF THE HOUSE OF ╟OD, GAVE UNTO THE PRIESTS FOR THE PASSOVER OFFERINGS TWO THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED SMALL CATTLE AND THREE HUNDRED OXEN.
2├╚ 35:9 ├ONANIAH ALSO, AND ╙HEMAIAH AND ╬ETHANEEL, HIS BRETHREN, AND ╚ASHABIAH AND ╩EIEL AND ╩OZABAD, CHIEF OF THE ╠EVITES, GAVE UNTO THE ╠EVITES FOR PASSOVER OFFERINGS FIVE THOUSAND SMALL CATTLE, AND FIVE HUNDRED OXEN.
2├╚ 35:10 ╙O THE SERVICE WAS PREPARED, AND THE PRIESTS STOOD IN THEIR PLACE, AND THE ╠EVITES IN THEIR COURSES, ACCORDING TO THE KING'S COMMANDMENT.
2├╚ 35:11 ┴ND THEY KILLED THE PASSOVER, AND THE PRIESTS SPRINKLED THE BLOOD FROM THEIR HANDS, AND THE ╠EVITES FLAYED THEM.
2├╚ 35:12 ┴ND THEY REMOVED THE BURNT OFFERINGS, THAT THEY MIGHT GIVE ACCORDING TO THE DIVISIONS OF THE FAMILIES OF THE PEOPLE, TO OFFER UNTO THE ╠╧╥─, AS IT IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF ═OSES. ┴ND SO DID THEY WITH THE OXEN.
2├╚ 35:13 ┴ND 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.
2├╚ 35:14 ┴ND AFTERWARD THEY MADE READY FOR THEMSELVES, AND FOR THE PRIESTS: BECAUSE THE PRIESTS THE SONS OF ┴ARON WERE BUSIED IN OFFERING OF BURNT OFFERINGS AND THE FAT UNTIL NIGHT; THEREFORE THE ╠EVITES PREPARED FOR THEMSELVES, AND FOR THE PRIESTS THE SONS OF ┴ARON.
2├╚ 35:15 ┴ND THE SINGERS THE SONS OF ┴SAPH WERE IN THEIR PLACE, ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT OF ─AVID, AND ┴SAPH, AND ╚EMAN, AND ╩EDUTHUN THE KING'S SEER; AND THE PORTERS WAITED AT EVERY GATE; THEY MIGHT NOT DEPART FROM THEIR SERVICE; FOR THEIR BRETHREN THE ╠EVITES PREPARED FOR THEM.
2├╚ 35:16 ╙O ALL THE SERVICE OF THE ╠╧╥─ WAS PREPARED THE SAME DAY, TO KEEP THE PASSOVER, AND TO OFFER BURNT OFFERINGS UPON THE ALTAR OF THE ╠╧╥─, ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT OF KING ╩OSIAH.
2├╚ 35:17 ┴ND THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL THAT WERE PRESENT KEPT THE PASSOVER AT THAT TIME, AND THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD SEVEN DAYS.
2├╚ 35:18 ┴ND THERE WAS NO PASSOVER LIKE TO THAT KEPT IN ╔SRAEL FROM THE DAYS OF ╙AMUEL THE PROPHET; NEITHER DID ALL THE KINGS OF ╔SRAEL KEEP SUCH A PASSOVER AS ╩OSIAH KEPT, AND THE PRIESTS, AND THE ╠EVITES, AND ALL ╩UDAH AND ╔SRAEL THAT WERE PRESENT, AND THE INHABITANTS OF ╩ERUSALEM.
2├╚ 35:19 ╔N THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF ╩OSIAH WAS THIS PASSOVER KEPT.
2├╚ 35:20 ┴FTER ALL THIS, WHEN ╩OSIAH HAD PREPARED THE TEMPLE, ╬ECHO KING OF ┼GYPT CAME UP TO FIGHT AGAINST ├HARCHEMISH BY ┼UPHRATES: AND ╩OSIAH WENT OUT AGAINST HIM.
2├╚ 35:21 ┬UT HE SENT AMBASSADORS TO HIM, SAYING, ╫HAT HAVE ╔ TO DO WITH THEE, THOU KING OF ╩UDAH? ╔ COME NOT AGAINST THEE THIS DAY, BUT AGAINST THE HOUSE WHEREWITH ╔ HAVE WAR: FOR ╟OD COMMANDED ME TO MAKE HASTE: FORBEAR THEE FROM MEDDLING WITH ╟OD, WHO IS WITH ME, THAT HE DESTROY THEE NOT.
2├╚ 35:22 ╬EVERTHELESS ╩OSIAH WOULD NOT TURN HIS FACE FROM HIM, BUT DISGUISED HIMSELF, THAT HE MIGHT FIGHT WITH HIM, AND HEARKENED NOT UNTO THE WORDS OF ╬ECHO FROM THE MOUTH OF ╟OD, AND CAME TO FIGHT IN THE VALLEY OF ═EGIDDO.
2├╚ 35:23 ┴ND THE ARCHERS SHOT AT KING ╩OSIAH; AND THE KING SAID TO HIS SERVANTS, ╚AVE ME AWAY; FOR ╔ AM SORE WOUNDED.
2├╚ 35:24 ╚IS SERVANTS THEREFORE TOOK HIM OUT OF THAT CHARIOT, AND PUT HIM IN THE SECOND CHARIOT THAT HE HAD; AND THEY BROUGHT HIM TO ╩ERUSALEM, AND HE DIED, AND WAS BURIED IN ONE OF THE SEPULCHRES OF HIS FATHERS. ┴ND ALL ╩UDAH AND ╩ERUSALEM MOURNED FOR ╩OSIAH.
2├╚ 35:25 ┴ND ╩EREMIAH LAMENTED FOR ╩OSIAH: AND ALL THE SINGING MEN AND THE SINGING WOMEN SPAKE OF ╩OSIAH IN THEIR LAMENTATIONS TO THIS DAY, AND MADE THEM AN ORDINANCE IN ╔SRAEL: AND, BEHOLD, THEY ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAMENTATIONS.
2├╚ 35:26 ╬OW THE REST OF THE ACTS OF ╩OSIAH, AND HIS GOODNESS, ACCORDING TO THAT WHICH WAS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF THE ╠╧╥─,
2├╚ 35:27 ┴ND HIS DEEDS, FIRST AND LAST, BEHOLD, THEY ARE WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE KINGS OF ╔SRAEL AND ╩UDAH.
