1. Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto יְהוָ֥ה in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth of the first month.

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

3. And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto יְהוָ֥ה, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; not a burden upon shoulders: serve now יְהוָ֥ה your Elohim, and his people Israel,

4. And prepare 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 according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and the division of the families of the Levites.

6. So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that may do according to the word of יְהוָ֥ה by the hand of Moses.

7. And Josiah 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 of the king's substance.

8. And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of Elohim, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred, and three hundred oxen.

9. Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand, and five hundred oxen.

10. So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.

11. And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled from their hands, and the Levites flayed.

12. And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto יְהוָ֥ה, as written in the book of Moses. And so with the oxen.

13. And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the holy sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided speedily among all the people.

14. And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.

15. And the singers the sons of Asaph in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

16. So all the service of יְהוָ֥ה was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of יְהוָ֥ה, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

17. And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

18. And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

19. In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.