Josiah
Moreover
Josiah Kept A Passover To God
- in Jerusalem and
They
Killed The Passover
- on the Fourteenth Day of the First Month.
He Set The Priests In Their Charges -
and encouraged them
To
The Service Of The House Of God
- and
Said
To The Levites -
that taught all Hebrews that were Holy to God
Put
The Holy Ark In The House
- that Solomon
The
Son Of David King Of Hebrews
- did build
It
Shall Not Be A Burden - upon your shoulders
Serve
Now God - and his People Hebrews
and
Prepare
Yourselves By The Houses
- of your Fathers after your courses
According
To The Writing Of -
David King of Hebrews and
According
To The Writing Of -
Solomon his Son.
Stand In The Holy Place - according
to
The
Divisions Of The Families Of -
the Fathers of your Brethren the People
and
After
The Divisions 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 God
- by the hand of Moses.
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.
His Princes Gave Willingly To The People - to The Priests and
to the Levites
Hilkiah
and Zechariah - and Jehiel Rulers Of The House Of God
Gave
To The Priests For The Passover - offerings two thousand and
six hundred
Small
Cattle - and three hundred oxen.
Conaniah Also - and Shemaiah and Nethaneel his Brethren and
Hashabiah and
Jeiel
and Jozabad Chief Of - the Levites gave to 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.
They
Killed The Passover - and the Priests sprinkled the blood from
their hands and
The Levites Flayed - them.
They
Removed The Burnt Offerings - that they might give
According
To The Divisions Of - the Families of the Peoples to offer to
God
As
It Is Written - in The Book Of Moses.
So
Did They - with the oxen.
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.
Afterward They Made Ready For - themselves and for the Priests
Because
The Priests - the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt
offerings
The
Fat - until night therefore the Levites prepared for themselves
and
For The Priests - the sons of Aaron.
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.
So All The Service Of God Was Prepared
- the same day to keep The Passover and
To Offer Burnt Offerings - upon
The Altar Of God
According
To The Commandment - of King Josiah.
The Children Of Hebrews - that
were present kept The Passover at that time and
The
Feast Of Unleavened Bread
- seven days.
There
Was No Passover - like to that - kept in Hebrews
From
The Days Of Samuel - The Prophet
Neither
Did All The Kings Of Hebrews
- 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 Charchemish by Euphrates
and
Josiah
went out -
against him.
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.
Nevertheless Josiah - would
not turn his face from him but disguised himself
That
He Might Fight With Him
- and
Hearkened
Not To The Words Of Necho From
The Mouth Of God
- and
Came
To Fight - in the Valley of Megiddo.
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.
All
Judah and Jerusalem Mourned - for Josiah.
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 Hebrews - and
Behold
They Are Written
- in The Lamentations.
Now
The Rest Of The Acts Of Josiah - and his goodness
According
To That Was Written - in The Law Of God
His
Deeds - first and last
Behold
They Are Written
- in The Book Of The Kings Of Israel and Judah.
God
remember David and all his afflictions how he sware to God and
vowed
to the mighty God of Jacob surely I will not come into the tabernacle
of my House
nor
go up into my bed
I will not give sleep to mine eyes or slumber to mine eyelids
until
I find out a place for God an habitation for the mighty God
of Jacob.
Lo
we heard of it at Ephratah we found it in the fields of the
wood.
We
will go into his tabernacles we will worship at his footstool.
Arise O God into thy rest thou and the Ark of thy strength.
Let
thy priests be clothed with righteousness and let thy saints
shout for joy.
For
thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.
God
hath sworn in truth to David he will not turn from it
Of
the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.
If
thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony
that
I shall teach them their children shall also sit upon thy throne
for evermore.
For God hath chosen Zion he hath desired it for his habitation.
This is my rest for ever here will I dwell for I have desired
it.
I will abundantly bless her provision I will satisfy her poor
with bread.
I will also clothe her priests with salvation and her saints
shall shout aloud for joy.
There will I make the horn of David to bud I have ordained a
lamp for mine anointed.
His enemies will I clothe with shame but upon himself shall
his crown flourish.
They
say If a man put away his wife and she go from him and
Become
Another Man's - shall he return to her again ? shall not that
land be greatly polluted ? but
Thou
Hast Played The Harlot
- with many lovers yet return again to me saith God.
Lift Up Thine Eyes To The High Places
- and see where thou hast not been lien with.
In
The Ways Hast Thou Sat
- for them as the Arabian in the wilderness and
Thou
Hast Polluted The Land
- with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
Therefore The Showers Have Been - withholden
and there hath been no latter rain and
Thou
Hadst A - whore's
forehead thou refusedst to be ashamed.
Wilt Thou Not From This Time - cry to
me My father thou art the guide of my youth ?
Will He Reserve His Anger - for ever ? will he
keep it to the end ?
Behold
Thou Hast Spoken -
and done evil things as thou couldest.
God
Said Also To Me -
in the days of Josiah the King
Hast
thou seen that backsliding Israel hath done ?
She
Is Gone Up
- upon every high mountain and under every green tree and
There
Hath Played
- the harlot.
I said after she had done all these things -
Turn thou to me. But she returned not.
Her
Treacherous Sister - Judah saw it.
I saw when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed
adultery
I
had put her away and given her a bill of divorce
yet
her treacherous sister Judah feared not but went and played
the harlot also.
It
came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom that she
defiled the land and
committed
adultery with stones and with stocks
yet
for all this her treacherous sister Judah
hath
not turned to me with her whole heart but feignedly saith God.
God
said to me The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more
than treacherous Judah.
Go and proclaim these words toward the north and say
Return
thou backsliding Israel saith God and I will not cause mine
anger to fall upon you
for
I am merciful saith God and I will not keep anger for ever.
Only
acknowledge thine iniquity that thou hast transgressed against
thy God and
hast
scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree and
ye
have not obeyed my voice saith God.
Turn
O backsliding children saith God for I am married to you and
I will take you one of a city and two of a family and I will
bring you to Zion.
I
will give you pastors according to mine heart
that
shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
It
shall come to pass when ye be multiplied and increased in the
land in those days
saith
God they shall say no more The Ark of the Covenant of God
neither
shall it come to mind neither shall they remember it neither
shall they visit it
neither
shall that be done any more.
At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of God and
all the nations shall be gathered to it to the name of God to
Jerusalem
neither
shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil
heart.
In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of
Israel and
they
shall come together out of the land of the north - to the land
that
I have given for an inheritance to your fathers.
I said How shall I put thee among the children and give thee
a pleasant land
a
goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said
Thou
shalt call me My father and shalt not turn away from me.
Surely
as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband
so
have ye dealt treacherously with me O house of Israel saith
God.
A
voice was heard upon the high places weeping and
supplications
of the Children of Israel
for
they have perverted their way and they have forgotten God.
Return
ye backsliding Children and I will heal your backslidings.
Behold
we come to thee for thou art our God.
Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills and
From
The Multitude Of Mountains - truly God is the salvation of Hebrews.
For
Shame Hath Devoured - the labour of our Fathers
From
Our Youth Their Flocks - and their herds their sons and their
daughters.
We
Lie Down In Our Shame - and our confusion covereth us
For
We Have Sinned Against God - we and our fathers from our youth
even to this day and
Have Not Obeyed - the voice of God.
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