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35:1 Josiah <02977> observed <06213> a Passover festival <06453> for the Lord <03068> in Jerusalem <03389>. They slaughtered <07819> the Passover lambs <06453> on the fourteenth <06240> <0702> day of the first <07223> month <02320>. 35:2 He appointed <05975> the priests <03548> to fulfill <05921> their duties <04931> and encouraged <02388> them to carry out their service <05656> in the Lord’s <03068> temple <01004>. 35:3 He told <0559> the Levites <03881>, who instructed <0995> all <03605> Israel <03478> about things consecrated <06918> to the Lord <03068>, “Place <05414> the holy <06944> ark <0727> in the temple <01004> which <0834> King <04428> Solomon <08010> son <01121> of David <01732> of Israel <03478> built <01129>. Don’t <0369> carry it on your shoulders <03802>. Now <06258> serve <05647> the Lord <03068> your God <0430> and his people <05971> Israel <03478>! 35:4 Prepare <03559> yourselves by your families <01> <01004> according to your divisions <04256>, as instructed <03791> by King <04428> David <01732> of Israel <03478> and his son <01121> Solomon <08010>. 35:5 Stand in <05975> the sanctuary <06944> and, together with the Levites <03881> <01121>, represent the family <01> <01004> divisions <02515> of your countrymen <05971>. 35:6 Slaughter <07819> the Passover lambs <06453>, consecrate <06942> yourselves, and make preparations <03559> for your countrymen <0251> to do <06213> what <01697> the Lord <03068> commanded through <03027> Moses <04872>.” 35:7 From his own <07399> royal <04428> flocks <06629> and herds, Josiah <02977> supplied <07311> the people <05971> with 30,000 <0505> <07970> lambs <03532> and goats <05795> for the Passover sacrifice <06453>, as well as 3,000 <0505> <07969> cattle <01241>. 35:8 His officials <08269> also willingly contributed <05071> to the people <05971>, priests <03548>, and Levites <03881>. Hilkiah <02518>, Zechariah <02148>, and Jehiel <03171>, the leaders <05057> of God’s <0430> temple <01004>, supplied <05414> 2,600 <03967> <08337> <0505> Passover sacrifices <06453> and 300 <03967> <07969> cattle <01241>. 35:9 Konaniah <03562> and his brothers <0251> Shemaiah <08098> and Nethanel <05417>, along with Hashabiah <02811>, Jeiel <03273>, and Jozabad <03107>, the officials <08269> of the Levites <03881>, supplied <07311> the Levites <03881> with 5,000 <0505> <02568> Passover sacrifices <06453> and 500 <03967> <02568> cattle <01241>. 35:10 Preparations <05656> <03559> were made <05975>, and the priests <03548> stood <05975> at <05921> their posts and the Levites <03881> in <05921> their divisions <04256> as prescribed <04687> by the king <04428>. 35:11 They slaughtered <07819> the Passover lambs <06453> and the priests <03548> splashed <02236> the blood, while the Levites <03881> skinned <06584> the animals. 35:12 They reserved <05493> the burnt offerings <05930> and the cattle <01241> for the family <01> <01004> divisions <04653> of the people <05971> <01121> to present <07126> to the Lord <03068>, as prescribed <03789> in the scroll <05612> of Moses <04872>.

• 2Ch 35:1-19 -- Josiah Observes the Passover

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• Rulers

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• Pentateuch

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• Passover

  [isbe] PASSOVER - pas'-o-ver (pecach, from pacach, "to pass" or "spring over" or "to spare" (Ex 12:13,23,17; compare Isa 31:5]. Other conjectures connect the word with the "passing over" into a new year, with assyr pasahu, meaning ...
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• NATHANAEL (1)

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• Levites

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• Josiah

  [ebd] healed by Jehovah, or Jehovah will support. The son of Amon, and his successor on the throne of Judah (2 Kings 22:1; 2 Chr. 34:1). His history is contained in 2 Kings 22, 23. He stands foremost among all the kings of the lin...
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• JORAM

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• JEHIEL; JEHIELI

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• JECONIAS

  [isbe] JECONIAS - jek-o-ni-as (Iechonias): (1) One of the chiliarchs who made great gifts of sheep and calves at the Passover of Josiah (1 Esdras 1:9); called "Conaniah" in 2 Ch 35:9. (2) One reading makes Jeconias (not Joachaz) so...
  

• Israel

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• Influence

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• HOLINESS

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• ESYELUS

  [isbe] ESYELUS - e-si-e'-lus (Esuel, Esuelos; the King James Version Syelus): One of the governors of the Temple in the time of Josiah (1 Esdras 1:8); called "Jehiel" in 2 Ch 35:8.
  

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• DIVISION

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• CONANIAH

  [ebd] whom Jehovah hath set, a Levite placed over the tithes brought into the temple (2 Chr. 35:9).
  [isbe] CONANIAH - kon-a-ni'-a (konanyahu, "Jah has rounded or sustained"; the King James Version Cononiah): (1) A Levite, appointed with his brother Shimei by Hezekiah, the king, and Azariah, the ruler of the house of God, to be ov...
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  [isbe] CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF - kron'-i-k'-ls (dibhere ha-yamim, "The Words of the Days"; Septuagint paraleipomenon: 1. The Name 2. The Position of Chronicles in the Old Testament 3. Two Books, or One? 4. The Contents 5. Sources Bibl...
  

• Josiah's Cultic Reforms

  

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