Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Josiah The whole solemnity was performed with great exactness according to the law, and upon this account there was none like it since Samuel's time; for even in Hezekiah's passover there were several irregularities. Bp. Patrick observes, that in this also it exceeded the other passovers which preceding things had kept, that though Josiah was by no means so rich as David, or Solomon, of Jehoshaphat, yet he furnished the congregation with beasts for sacrifice, both paschal and eucharistical, at his own proper cost and charge, which was more than any king ever did before.
2 Chronicles 30:1-27 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also …
2 Kings 23:21-23 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover …
the fourteenth
Exodus 12:6 And you shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month…
Numbers 9:3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, you shall keep it in …
Deuteronomy 16:1-8 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover to the LORD your God…
Ezra 6:19 And the children of the captivity kept the passover on the fourteenth …
Ezekiel 45:21 In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, you shall …
Josiah's solemnization of the passover, which is merely alluded to at
2 Kings 23:21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover …
And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,
And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel,
the Levites
2 Chronicles 17:8,9 And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and …
2 Chronicles 30:22 And Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites that taught the …
Deuteronomy 33:10 They shall teach Jacob your judgments, and Israel your law: they …
Nehemiah 8:7,8 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah…
Malachi 2:7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek …
put
2 Chronicles 8:11 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of …
2 Chronicles 34:14 And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house …
in the house
2 Chronicles 5:7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD to …
not be
Numbers 4:15-49 And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, …
1 Chronicles 23:26 And also to the Levites; they shall no more carry the tabernacle, …
serve now
Numbers 8:19 And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from …
Numbers 16:9,10 Seems it but a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated …
2 Corinthians 4:5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves …
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.
the houses
1 Chronicles 9:10-34 And of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin…
Nehemiah 11:10-20 Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin…
after your courses. The regulations formed by David, and established by Solomon, concerning the courses of the priests and Levites, were committed to writing, and preserved, for them to refer to continually. Josiah, as well as Hezekiah, required the priests and levites to attend to their several duties, and encouraged them therein, but he neither added, altered, not retrenched anything: he merely enforced what had been established in the law, and in the regulations made by David and the contemporary prophets: ` the commandment of the king...was by the word of the Lord.'
1 Chronicles 23:1-26:32 So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king …
and according
2 Chronicles 8:14 And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the …
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.
So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
So kill
2 Chronicles 30:15-17 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second …
Exodus 12:6,21,22 And you shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month…
Ezra 6:20,21 For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure…
sanctify
2 Chronicles 29:5,15,34 And said to them, Hear me, you Levites, sanctify now yourselves, …
2 Chronicles 30:3,15-19 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had …
Genesis 35:2 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, …
Exodus 19:10,15 And the LORD said to Moses, Go to the people, and sanctify them to …
Numbers 19:11-20 He that touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days…
Job 1:5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that …
Psalm 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall …
Joel 2:16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, …
Hebrews 9:13,14 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer …
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 were of the king's substance.
Josiah
2 Chronicles 7:8-10 Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all …
2 Chronicles 30:24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand …
Isaiah 32:8 But the liberal devises liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
Ezekiel 45:17 And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and meat …
gave [heb] offered
1 Kings 8:63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered …
thirty thousand According to the calculation, that not fewer than ten, nor more than twenty persons, were to join for one kid or lamb, the numbers given on this occasion would suffice for above
1 Kings 8:63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered …
1 Chronicles 29:3 Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, …
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 God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.
his princes
2 Chronicles 29:31-33 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now you have consecrated yourselves …
1 Chronicles 29:6-9,17 Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel …
Ezra 1:6 And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels …
Ezra 2:68,69 And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house …
Ezra 7:16 And all the silver and gold that you can find in all the province …
Ezra 8:25-35 And weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even …
Nehemiah 7:70-72 And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the work. The Tirshatha …
Psalm 45:12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich …
Acts 2:44,45 And all that believed were together, and had all things common…
Acts 4:34,35 Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were …
gave [heb] offered
willingly
2 Corinthians 8:12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to …
2 Corinthians 9:7 Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give; …
Hilkiah
2 Chronicles 34:14-20 And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house …
rulers
1 Chronicles 9:20 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time past, …
1 Chronicles 24:4,5 And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of …
Jeremiah 29:25,26 Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying…
Acts 4:1 And as they spoke to the people, the priests, and the captain of …
Acts 5:26 Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without …
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 small cattle, and five hundred oxen.
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.
And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.
the priests
2 Chronicles 29:22-24 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, …
2 Chronicles 30:16 And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the …
2 Chronicles 30:16 And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the …
Leviticus 1:5,6 And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's …
Numbers 18:3,7 And they shall keep your charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle…
Hebrews 9:21,22 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the …
flayed them
2 Chronicles 29:34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the …
And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen.
And 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.
roasted
Exodus 12:8,9 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and …
Deuteronomy 16:7 And you shall roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God …
Psalm 22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my …
Lamentations 1:12,13 Is it nothing to you, all you that pass by? behold, and see if there …
sod
Leviticus 6:28 But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and …
Numbers 6:19 And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one …
1 Samuel 2:13-15 And the priest's custom with the people was, that, when any man offered …
divided them speedily [heb] made them run
Romans 12:11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.
And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.
place [heb] station
according
2 Chronicles 29:25,26 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with …
1 Chronicles 16:41,42 And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, …
1 Chronicles 23:5 Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the …
1 Chronicles 25:1-7 Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service …
Psalm 77:1 I cried to God with my voice, even to God with my voice; and he gave ear to me.
Psalm 78:1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Psalm 79:1 O God, the heathen are come into your inheritance; your holy temple …
the porters
1 Chronicles 9:17-19 And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, …
1 Chronicles 26:14-19 And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, …
So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
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.
In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.
After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.
What
2 Samuel 16:10 And the king said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? …
Matthew 8:29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with you, …
John 2:4 Jesus said to her, Woman, what have I to do with you? my hour is not yet come.
house wherewith I have war [heb] house of my war
God
2 Kings 18:25 Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? …
Isaiah 36:10 And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy …
forbear thee
2 Chronicles 25:19 You say, See, you have smitten the Edomites; and your heart lifts …
Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
Nevertheless Josiah's conduct in this affair has been treated with great severity; and he has been charged with engaging rashly in an unjust war, and disregarding the express command of God. But Scripture no where condemns him; and Pharaoh, in marching through Josiah's territories, against his will, certainly committed an act of hostility. It is evident that Josiah was in possession of the whole land of Israel (ch
2 Chronicles 26:6 And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke down …
but disguised
2 Chronicles 18:29 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, …
1 Kings 1:2 Why his servants said to him, Let there be sought for my lord the …
1 Kings 22:30,34 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, …
the mouth
2 Kings 9:27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of …
2 Kings 23:30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and …
Zechariah 12:11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the …
Megiddon
Revelation 16:16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue …
Armageddon
And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.
His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
Jeremiah
Jeremiah 22:10 Weep you not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for …
Lamentations 4:20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in …
all the singers
Job 3:8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
Ecclesiastes 12:5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall …
Jeremiah 9:17-21 Thus said the LORD of hosts, Consider you, and call for the mourning …
Matthew 9:23 And when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the minstrels …
and made them
Jeremiah 22:20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and …
Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the LORD,
And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
deeds
2 Chronicles 20:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, …
2 Chronicles 24:27 Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid on …
2 Chronicles 25:26 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are …
2 Chronicles 26:22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the …
2 Chronicles 32:32 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they …
2 Chronicles 33:19 His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sins, …
2 Kings 10:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might…
2 Kings 16:19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written …
2 Kings 20:20 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how …
2 Kings 21:25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written …
