1   And Iosias kept the ^note Passeouer to his Lorde in Ierusalem, and offred the Passeouer in the fourteenth daye of the first moneth,

2   And appointed the Priests according to their dayly courses, being clothed with long garments in the Temple of the Lord.

3   And he spake to the Leuites the holy Ministers of Israel, that they should sanctifie themselues to the Lord, to set the holy Arke of the Lord in the House, which Salomon the sonne of King Dauid had buylt,

4   And sayde, Ye shall no more beare the Arke vpon your shoulders: now therefore serue the Lord your God; and take the charge of his people of Israel, & prepare according to your families & tribes,

5   After the writing of Dauid King of Israel, & according to the Maiestie of Salomon his sonne, and stande in the Temple (according to the order of the dignitie of your fathers the Leuites) which were appoynted before your brethren the children of Israel.

6   Offer in order the Passeouer, and make readie the sacrifices for your brethren, and keepe the Passeouer after the Lordes commandement giuen to Moyses.

7   And Iosias gaue to the people that was present, thirtie thousand lambes and kiddes with three thousand calues.

8   These were giuen of the Kings possessions according to the promes, to the people, and to the Priestes, and to the Leuites. Then gaue Helkias and Zacharias and ^note Syelus the gouernours of the Temple, to the Priests for the Passeouer two thousande sixe hundreth sheepe, and three hundreth calues.

9   Furthermore, Iechonias, and Samaias, & Nathanael his brother, and ^note Sabias and ^note Chielus, and ^note Ioram captaines gaue to the Leuites for the Passeouer fiue thousande sheepe, and seuen hundreth calues.

10   And wh&ebar; these things were done, the Priests and the Leuites stoode in order, hauing vnleauened bread according to the tribes,

11   And after the order of the dignitie of their fathers, before the people to offer to the Lord, as it is written in the bookes of Moyses: and thus they did in the morning.

12   And they rosted the Passeouer with fire as ^note apperteined, and they sod their offrings with perfumes in caldrons and pottes,

13   And set it before all them that were of the people, and afterwarde they prepared for themselues, and for the Priests their brethren the sonnes of Aaron.

14   For the Priestes offred the fatte vnto the Euening, and the Leuites did make ready for them selues, and for the Priests their brethren the sonnes of Aaron.

15   And the holy singers, the sonnes of Asaph, were in their orders, according to the appoynted

ordinances of Dauid, to wit, Asaph, and Azarias, and ^note Eddinus, which was of the Kings appoyntment.

16   And the porters were at euery gate, so that it was not lawfull, that any should passe his ordinarie watche: for their brethren the Leuites made readie for them.

17   And in that day those things which apperteined to the sacrifice of the Lord, were accomplished, that they might offer the Passeouer,

18   And offer sacrifices vpon the altar of the Lorde, according to the commandement of King Iosias.

19   So the children of Israel, which were present at that time, kept the Passeouer and the feast of vnleauened bread seuen dayes.

20   And there was not such a Passeouer kept in Israel since the time of Samuel the Prophet.

21   And al the Kings of Israel did not offer such a Passeouer, as did Iosias, and the Priestes, and the Leuites, and the Iewes, and all Israel, which were found to remaine in Ierusalem.

22   In the eighteenth yeere of the reigne of Iosias was this Passeouer kept.

23   The works of Iosias were vpright before his Lord with a heart full of godlinesse.

24   And concerning the things which came to passe in his time, they are written before, to wit, of those that sinned & did wickedly against the Lord, aboue euery nation and kingdome, & grieued him with ^note sensible things, so that the words of the Lord stoode vp against Israel.

25   ¶2; ^note Now after al these actes of Iosias, it came to passe that when Pharao King of Egypt came to moue warre at Carchamis vpon Euphrates, Iosias went out against him.

26   But the King of Egypt sent to him, saying, What haue I to do with thee, O King of Iudea?

27   I am not sent of the Lord God against thee: but my warre is vpon Euphrates, & now the Lord is with me, and the Lord hasteneth me forwarde: depart from me, and be not against the Lord.

28   But Iosias would not turne backe his chariot from him, but prepared himselfe to fight with him, not regarding the wordes of Ieremias the Prophet by the mouth of the Lord.

29   But he set himselfe in battel aray against him in the fielde of Megeddo, and the Princes came downe to King Iosias.

30   And the King sayde to his seruants, Conuey me out of the battel, for I am very weake. And by & by his seruants brought him out of the battell.

31   So he gate vpon his second chariot, & being come againe to Ierusalem he changed his life, and was buried in his fathers graue.

32   And in all Iudea was Iosias bewayled, yea, Ieremias the Prophet did lament for Iosias, and the gouernours and their wiues did lament him vnto this day: and this was ordeined in all the kinred of Israel, to be done continually.

33   But these things are written in the booke of the stories of the Kings of Iudea, and euery one of the actes that Iosias did, and his glorie, & his knowledge in the Lawe of the Lorde, and the thinges which he did before, and the things now rehearsed are registred in the booke of the Kings of Israel and Iudea.

34   Then they of the nation tooke ^note Ioachaz the sonne of Iosias, and made him King in steade of his father Iosias, when he was three and twentie yeere olde.

35   And he reigned in Iudea and in Ierusalem three moneths: for the King of Egypt deposed him from reigning in Ierusalem.

36   He taxed also the people of an hundreth talents of siluer, and one talent of golde.

37   And the king of Egypt made Ioacim his brother King of Iudea and Ierusalem.

38   And he bound Ioachaz and his gouernours: but when he had taken Zaraces his brother, he led him away into Egypt.

39   Twentie & fiue yere olde was Ioacim, when he reigned in Iudea and Ierusalem, and he did euill in the sight of the Lord.

40   Wherefore against him came vp Nabuchodonosor King of Babylon, who when hee had bound him with a chayne of brasse, lead him away into Babylon.

41   Then Nabuchodonosor tooke of the holy vessels of the Lorde, and caryed them away, and set them in his Temple at Babylon.

42   But all his actes, and his prophanation, & his reproche are written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings.

43   And Ioacim his sonne reigned for him: and when hee was made King, he was eighteene yeere olde.

44   And he reygned three moneths and tenne dayes in Ierusalem, and he did euill in the sight of the Lorde.

45   ¶2; So a yeere after Nabuchodonosor sent & brought him to Babylon with the holy vessels of the Lorde.

46   And he made Sedecias king of Iudea and Ierusalem, when he was one and twentie yeere olde, and he reigned eleuen yeeres.

47   And he did euil in the sight of the Lord, neither did he feare the wordes spoken ^note by Ieremias the Prophet from the mouth of the Lord.

48   For after that he was sworne to King Nabuchodonosor, he forsware himselfe by the Name of the Lord and fell away, and hardened his necke & his heart, and transgressed the lawes of the Lorde God of Israel.

49   Also the gouernours of the people, and the Priests committed many things against the Lawes, and passed al the pollutions of al nations, & polluted the Temple of the Lorde, which was sanctified in Ierusalem.

50   Neuerthelesse the God of their fathers sent his messenger to call them backe, because he spared them and his owne Tabernacle.

51   But they derided his messengers, and in the day, that the Lorde spake vnto them, they mocked his Prophets,

52   So that he, being moued to anger against his people for their great wickednes, commaunded the Kings of the Caldeans to inuade them.

53   These killed their yong men with the sword rounde about their holy Temple, neither did they spare yong man, nor mayden, neither olde man, nor childe among them.

54   But he deliuered them all into their handes, and all the holy vessels of the Lord, both great and small with the vessels of the Arke of God: and they tooke, and carryed away the Kings treasures into Babylon.

55   And they set fire in the House of the Lord, & brake downe the walles of Ierusalem, and burne their towres with fire.

56   They consumed also all the precious thinges:

thereof, and brought them to nought, and those that were left by the sworde, hee caryed away into Babylon.

57   And they were seruantes to him, and to his children till the Persians reigned, to fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of ^note Ieremias,

58   And that the lande might inioy her Sabbaths all the time, that it was desolate, till seuentie yeeres were accomplished.

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