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and the porters
waited
at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the
Levites prepared for them.
16
So all the service of the L
ORD
was prepared the same day, to keep the
passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the L
ORD
, 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.
20
After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight
against Charchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
21
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.
22
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.
23
And
the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore
wounded.
24
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.
25
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.
26
Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according
to
that which was
written in the law of the L
ORD
,
27
And his deeds, first and last, behold, they
are
written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
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Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s
stead in Jerusalem.
2
Jehoahaz
was
twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned three months in Jerusalem.
3
And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and
condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
4
And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned
his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
5
Jehoiakim
was
twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem:
and he did
that which was
evil in the sight of the L
ORD
his God.
6
Against him came up
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
7
Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the L
ORD
to Babylon, and put them in
his temple at Babylon.
8
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did,
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