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For those who were present at this paschal feast, Josias provided the flocks they had need of, thirty thousand lambs and kids, as well as three thousand bulls, all of the king’s bounty. (2 Chronicles 35, 7)
Thus preparation was made for the ceremony, and the priests stood ready for their task, with the Levites to aid them, ranged at the king’s bidding in their several companies. (2 Chronicles 35, 10)
Nothing of due observance was left unfulfilled that day; the pasch was kept, and burnt-sacrifice, too, was offered to the Lord on his altar, at king Josias’ bidding. (2 Chronicles 35, 16)
Never was such a paschal feast as this in all Israel’s history since the days of the prophet Samuel; never a king, of all who reigned in Israel, so kept it as Josias did, with priests and Levites and pilgrims from Juda and Israel, besides the citizens of Jerusalem. (2 Chronicles 35, 18)
After Josias’ restoration of the temple was finished, news came that Nechao, king of Egypt, was on his way to attack Charcamis, on the Euphrates. (2 Chronicles 35, 20)
Josias marched out to bar his way, whereupon he sent him a message, Nay, king of Juda, I have no quarrel with thee. At God’s bidding I march, and with all speed, against another kingdom, not thine; God is on my side; cross his will, and he will slay thee. (2 Chronicles 35, 21)
He had a second chariot, as kings will, that followed behind him; into this they removed him out of his own chariot, and bore him away to Jerusalem. So he died, and was buried where his fathers lay. All Juda and Jerusalem mourned for him, but none so grievously as Jeremias; (2 Chronicles 35, 24)
all his history, first and last, is set down in the Record of the kings of Juda and Israel. (2 Chronicles 35, 27)
then he was deposed by the king of Egypt, who marched to Jerusalem and levied a fine from the country, a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. (2 Chronicles 36, 3)
Then he was attacked by the king of Babylon, Nabuchodonosor, who led him off to Babylon in chains; (2 Chronicles 36, 6)
What else Joakim did, all his idolatry and the story of the life he lived, may be found in the Record of the kings of Juda and Israel; he was succeeded by his son Joachin. (2 Chronicles 36, 8)
and when the spring came round, Nabuchodonosor had him brought to Babylon, with all the most precious of the furniture that was left in the Lord’s house. And he set up as king of Juda and Jerusalem Joachin’s uncle Sedecias. (2 Chronicles 36, 10)
