1 Josiyah kept a Passover to Yehowah in Yeruwshalaim: and they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month. 2 He set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them to the service of Yehowah’s house. 3 He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to Yehowah, “Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built. There shall no more be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve Yehowah your Elohim, and his people Israel. 4 Prepare yourselves after your fathers’ houses by your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son. 5 Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of your brothers the children of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a fathers’ house of the Levites. 6 Kill the Passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to Yehowah’s word by Moses.”

7 Josiyah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and young goats, all of them for the Passover offerings, to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bulls: these were of the king’s substance. 8 His princes gave for a freewill offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiyah and Zechariyah and Jehiel, the rulers of Elohim’s house, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small livestock, and three hundred head of cattle. 9 Conaniyah also, and Shemaiyah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiyah and Jeiel and Yowzabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small livestock, and five hundred head of cattle. 10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king’s commandment. 11 They killed the Passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received of their hand, and the Levites flayed them. 12 They removed the burnt offerings, that they might give them according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of the children of the people, to offer to Yehowah, as it is written in the book of Moses. So they did with the cattle. 13 They roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance: and the holy offerings boiled they in pots, and in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of the people. 14 Afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron were busy with offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night: therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron. 15 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 were at every gate: they didn’t need to depart from their service; for their brothers the Levites prepared for them. 16 So all the service of Yehowah was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of Yehowah, according to the commandment of king Josiyah. 17 The children of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. 18 There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiyah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Yehudah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Yeruwshalaim. 19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiyah was this Passover kept. 20 After all this, when Josiyah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates: and Josiyah went out against him. 21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, you king of Yehudah? I come not against you today, but against the house with which I have war. Elohim has commanded me to make haste. Beware that it is Elohim who is with me, that he not destroy you.”

22 Nevertheless Josiyah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and didn’t listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of Elohim, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo. 23 The archers shot at king Josiyah; and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, because I am seriously wounded!”

24 So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Yeruwshalaim; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Yehudah and Yeruwshalaim mourned for Josiyah. 25 Jeremiyah lamented for Josiyah: and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiyah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and behold, they are written in the lamentations. 26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiyah, and his good deeds, according to that which is written in Yehowah’s law, 27 and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Yehudah.