1 Daarna het Jos¡a in Jerusalem die pasga tot eer van die HERE gehou; en hulle het die pasga geslag op die veertiende van die eerste maand.
2 En hy het die priesters hulle dienspligte laat waarneem en hulle versterk vir die diens in die huis van die HERE.
3 Ook het hy aan die Leviete, die onderwysers van die hele Israel, wat heilig was aan die HERE, gesê: Sit die heilige ark in die huis wat Salomo, die seun van Dawid, die koning van Israel, gebou het; julle hoef niks meer op die skouers te dra nie: dien nou die HERE julle God en sy volk Israel;
4 en hou julle gereed volgens julle families, volgens julle afdelings, ooreenkomstig die voorskrif van Dawid, die koning van Israel, en die verordening van sy seun Salomo:
5 gaan staan in die heiligdom volgens die afdelings van die families van julle broers, die volksgenote, naamlik vir elkeen daarvan 'n afdeling van 'n Levitiese familie;
6 en slag die pasga en heilig julle en berei dit vir julle broers, om te doen volgens die woord van die HERE deur die diens van Moses.
7 En Jos¡a het aan die mense uit die volk afgegee kleinvee, skaaplammers en boklammers, dit alles as paasoffers, aan almal wat daar aanwesig was, dertig duisend in getal, en drie duisend beeste; dit was uit die besitting van die koning.
8 Ook sy vorste het aan die volk, aan die priesters en die Leviete vrywillig afgegee. Hilk¡a en Sagar¡a en J,hiël, die vorste oor die huis van God, het aan die priesters as paasoffers twee duisend ses honderd stuks kleinvee en drie honderd beeste gegee.
9 En Kon nja en sy broers Sem ja en Net neël, en Has bja en Je‹-el en Josabad, die owerstes van die Leviete, het aan die Leviete as paasoffers vyf duisend stuks kleinvee en vyf honderd beeste afgegee.
10 Die diens is toe gereël: die priesters het op hul plek gaan staan, en die Leviete volgens hulle afdelings, volgens die bevel van die koning.
11 Daarna het hulle die pasga geslag, en die priesters het die bloed uit die Leviete se hand geneem en dit uitgegooi, onderwyl die Leviete besig was om af te slag.
12 En hulle het wat vir die brandoffer bestem was, afgesonder om dit aan die familie-afdelings van die mense van die volk te gee om aan die HERE te offer, soos geskrywe is in die boek van Moses; en net so met die beeste.
13 En hulle het die pasga op die vuur gebraai volgens die voorskrif, maar die heilige gawes in potte en in kanne en in skottels gekook en gou aan al die mense van die volk gebring.
14 Daarna het hulle dit ook vir hulleself berei en vir die priesters; want die priesters, die seuns van A„ron, was tot in die nag besig met die offer van die brandoffer en die vetstukke; daarom het die Leviete dit vir hulleself en vir die priesters, die seuns van A„ron, berei.
15 En die sangers, die seuns van Asaf, was op hulle plek volgens die bevel van Dawid en van Asaf en Heman en Jedutun, die siener van die koning, en die poortwagters by elke poort; hulle het nie nodig gehad om van hulle diens af weg te gaan nie, want hulle broers, die Leviete, het dit vir hulle berei.
16 Die hele diens van die HERE is toe op die dag gereël -- om die pasga te hou en brandoffers te bring op die altaar van die HERE volgens die gebod van koning Jos¡a.
17 En die kinders van Israel wat aanwesig was, het die pasga gehou in die tyd, en ook die fees van die ongesuurde brode, sewe dae lank.
18 So 'n pasga soos die is in Israel nie gehou van die dae van die profeet Samuel af nie, en al die konings van Israel het nie so 'n pasga gehou as wat Jos¡a en die priesters en die Leviete en die hele Juda en Israel wat aanwesig was, en die inwoners van Jerusalem gehou het nie.
19 In die agttiende jaar van die regering van Jos¡a is hierdie pasga gehou.
20 N dit alles, toe Jos¡a die huis herstel het, het Nego, die koning van Egipte, opgetrek om te veg by K rkemis aan die Eufraat, en Jos¡a het uitgetrek hom tegemoet.
21 Toe stuur hy boodskappers na hom om te sê: Wat het ek met jou te doen, koning van Juda? Ek kom nie vandag teen jou nie, maar teen die huis wat gedurig teen my oorlog voer; en God het gesê ek moet gou maak. Verset jou nie teen God wat met my is, dat Hy jou nie vernietig nie.
22 Jos¡a het egter sy gesig nie van hom afgewend nie, maar homself onkenbaar gemaak om teen hom te veg; hy het nie geluister na die woorde van Nego uit die mond van God nie, en aangekom om te veg in die laagte van Meg¡ddo.
23 En die skutters het koning Jos¡a raak geskiet. Toe sê die koning aan sy dienaars: Bring my weg, want ek is swaar gewond.
24 Sy dienaars bring hom toe van die strydwa af weg en laat hom op sy tweede wa ry en vervoer hom na Jerusalem; en hy het gesterwe en is begrawe in die grafte van sy vaders, terwyl die hele Juda en Jerusalem oor Jos¡a gerou het.
25 En Jerem¡a het 'n klaaglied op Jos¡a gedig, en al die sangers en sangeresse het in hulle klaagliedere van Jos¡a gespreek tot vandag toe en dit tot 'n insetting in Israel gemaak; en kyk, dit is beskrywe in die Klaagliedere.
26 En die verdere geskiedenis van Jos¡a en sy vrome dade, volgens wat geskrywe is in die wet van die HERE,
27 sy geskiedenis dan, die vroeëre en die latere, kyk, dit is beskrywe in die Boek van die konings van Israel en Juda.
1 And Josiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem; on the fourteenth day of the first month they put the Passover lamb to death.
2 And he gave the priests their places, making them strong for the work of the house of God.
3 And he said to the Levites, the teachers of all Israel, who were holy to the Lord, See, the holy ark is in the house which Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel, made; it will no longer have to be transported on your backs: now be the servants of the Lord your God and his people Israel,
4 And make yourselves ready in your divisions, by your families, as it is ordered in the writings of David, king of Israel, and of Solomon his son;
5 And take your positions in the holy place, grouped in the families of your brothers, the children of the people, and for every division let there be a part of a family of the Levites.
6 And put the Passover lamb to death, and make yourselves holy, and make it ready for your brothers, so that the orders given by the Lord through Moses may be done.
7 And Josiah gave lambs and goats from the flock as Passover offerings for all the people who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand oxen: these were from the king's private property.
8 And his captains freely gave an offering to the people, the priests, and the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand, six hundred small cattle and three hundred oxen.
9 And Conaniah and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small cattle and five hundred oxen.
10 So everything was made ready and the priests took their places with the Levites in their divisions, as the king had said.
11 And they put the Passover lambs to death, the blood being drained out by the priests when it was given to them, and the Levites did the skinning.
12 And they took away the burned offerings, so that they might give them to be offered to the Lord for the divisions of the families of the people, as it is recorded in the book of Moses. And they did the same with the oxen.
13 And the Passover lamb was cooked over the fire, as it says in the law; and the holy offerings were cooked in pots and basins and vessels, and taken quickly to all the people.
14 And after that, they made ready for themselves and for the priests; for the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering the burned offerings and the fat till night; so the Levites made ready what was needed for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.
15 And the sons of Asaph, the makers of melody, were in their places, as ordered by David and Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, the king's seer; and the door-keepers were stationed at every door: there was no need for them to go away from their places, for their brothers the Levites made ready for them.
16 So everything needed for the worship of the Lord was made ready that same day, for the keeping of the Passover and the offering of burned offerings on the altar of the Lord, as King Josiah had given orders.
17 And all the children of Israel who were present kept the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread at that time for seven days.
18 No Passover like it had been kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; and not one of the kings of Israel had ever kept a Passover like the one kept by Josiah and the priests and the Levites and all those of Judah and Israel who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.
19 In the eighteenth year of the rule of Josiah this Passover was kept.
20 After all this, and after Josiah had put the house in order, Neco, king of Egypt, went up to make war at Carchemish by the river Euphrates; and Josiah went out against him.
21 But he sent representatives to him, saying, What have I to do with you, O king of Judah? I have not come against you this day, but against those with whom I am at war; and God has given me orders to go forward quickly: keep out of God's way, for he is with me, or he will send destruction on you.
22 However, Josiah would not go back; but keeping to his purpose of fighting against him, and giving no attention to the words of Neco, which came from God, he went forward to the fight in the valley of Megiddo.
23 And the bowmen sent their arrows at King Josiah, and the king said to his servants, Take me away, for I am badly wounded.
24 So his servants took him out of the line of war-carriages, and put him in his second carriage and took him to Jerusalem, where he came to his end, and they put his body in the resting-place of his fathers. And in all Judah and Jerusalem there was great weeping for Josiah.
25 And Jeremiah made a song of grief for Josiah; and to this day Josiah is named by all the makers of melody, men and women, in their songs of grief; they made it a rule in Israel; and the songs are recorded among the songs of grief.
26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and the good he did, in keeping with what is recorded in the law of the Lord,
27 And all his acts, first and last, are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.