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1And Iosias kept the Passeouer to his Lord in Ierusalem, and offred the Passeouer in the fourtenth day of the first moneth, 2And appointed the Priests in order according to their dailie courses, being clothed with long garments in the Temple of the Lord. 3And he spake to the Leuites the holy ministers of Israel, that they shulde sanctifie them selues to the Lord, to set the holy Arke of the Lord in the House, which Salomon the sonne of King Dauid had buylt, 4And said, Ye shal no more beare the Arke vpon your shulders: now therefore serue the Lord your God, and take the charge of his people of Israel, and prepare according to your families and tribes, 5After the writing of Dauid King of Israel, and according to the maiestie of Salomon his sonne, and stand in the Temple (according to the ordre of the dignitie of your fathers the Leuites) which were appointed before your brethren the children of Israel. 6Offer in ordre the Passeouer, and make readie the sacrifices for your brethren, and kepe the Passeouer after the Lords commandement giuen to Moyses. 7And Iosias gaue to the people that was present, thirtie thousand lambes and kiddes with thre thousand calues. 8These were giuen of the Kings possessions according to the promes, to the people, and to the Priests, and to the Leuites. Then gaue Helkias and Zacharias and "Syelus the gouernours of the Temple, to the Priests for the Passeouer two thousand shepe, and thre hundreth calues. 9Furthermore, Iechonias, and Samaias, and Nathanael his brother, and "Sabias, and "Chielus, and "Ioram captaines gaue to the Leuites for the Passeouer fiue thousand shepe and seuen hundreth calues. 10And when these things were done, the Priests and the Leuites stode in ordre, hauing vnleauened bread according to the tribes, 11And after the ordre of the dignitie of their fathers, before the people to offre to the Lord, as it is writen in the bokes of Moyses: and thus they did in the morning. 12And they rosted the Passeouer with fyre as *apperteined, & they sod their offrings with perfumes in caldrons and pottes, 13And set it before all them that were of the people, and afterward they prepared for them selues, and for the Priests their brethren the sonnes of Aaron. 14For the Priests 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. 15And the holy singers, the sonnes of Asaph, were in their orders, according to the appointed ordinances of Dauid, to wit, Asaph, and Azarias, and "Eddimus, which was of the Kings appointement. 16And the porters were at euerie gate, so that it was not lawful, that anie shulde passe his ordinarie watche: for their brethren the Leuites made readie for them. 17And in that day those things which apperteined to the sacrifice of the Lord, were accomplished, that they might offre the Passeouer, 18And offre sacrifices vpon the altar of the Lord, according to the commandement of King Iosias. 19So the children of Israel, which were present at that time, kept the Passeouer and the feast of vnleauened bread seuen daies. 20And there was not suche a Passeouer kept in Israel since the time of Samuel the Prophet. 21And all the Kings of Israel did not offre suche a Passeouer, as did Iosias, and the Priestes, and the Leuites, and the Iewes, and all Israel, which were founde to remaine in Ierusalem. 22In the eghtenth yere of the reigne of Iosias was this Passeouer kept. 23The workes of Iosias were vpright before his Lord with a heart ful of godlines. 24And concerning the things which came to passe in his time, they are writen before, to wit, of those that sinned & did wickedly against the Lord aboue euerie nacion and kingdome, and grieued him with" sensible things, so that the wordes of the Lord stode vp against Israel. 25¶*Now after all 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. 26But the King of Egypt sent to him, saying, What haue I to do with thee, ô King of Iudea? 27I am not sent of the Lord God against thee: but my warre is vpon Euphrates, and now the Lord is with me, and the Lord hasteneth me forwarde: departe from me, and be not against the Lord. 28But Iosias wolde not turne backe his chariot from him, but prepared him self to fight with him, not regarding the wordes of Ieremias the Prophet by the mouth of the Lord. 29But he set him self in battel aray against him in the field of Megeddo, & the princes came downe to King Iosias. 30And the King said to his seruants, Conuaye me out of the battel, for I am very weake. And by and by his seruants broght him out of the battel. 31So he gate vp on his seconde chariot, and being come againe to Ierusalem he changed his life, and was buryed in his fathers graue. 32And in all Iudea was Iosias bewailed, yea, Ieremias the Prophet did lament for Iosias, and the gouernours and their wiues did lament him vnto this day: & this was ordeined in all the kinred of Israel to be done continually. 33But these things are written in the boke of the stories of the Kings of Iudea, and euerie one of the actes that Iosias did, & his glorie, and his knowledge in the lawe of the Lord, and the things which he did before, and the things now rehersed are registred in the boke of the Kings of Israel and Iudea. 34Then they of the nacion toke* Ioachaz the sonne of Iosias, and made him King in steade of his father Iosias, when he was thre and twentie yere olde. 35And he reigned in Iudea and in Ierusalem thre moneths: for the King of Egypt deposed him from reigning in Ierusalem. 36He taxed also the people of an hundreth talents of siluer, & one talent of gold. 37And the King of Egypt made Ioacim his brother King of Iudea & Ierusalem. 38And he bounde Ioachaz and his gouernours: but when he had taken Zaraces his brother, he led him away into Egypt. 39Twentie and fiue yere olde was Ioacim, when he reigned in Iudea and Ierusalem, and he did euil in the sigt of the Lord. 40Wherefore against him came vp Nabuchodonosor King of Babylon, who when he had bounde him with a chaine of brasse, led him away into Babylon. 41Then Nabuchodonosor toke of the holie vessels of the Lord, & caryed them away, and set them in his temple at Babylon. 42But all his actes, and his prophanation, and his reproche are written in the Chronicles of the Kings. 43And Ioacim his sonne reigned for him: and when he was made King, he was eightene yere olde. 44And he reigned thre moneths and ten dayes in Ierusalem, aud he did euil in the sight of the Lord. 45¶ So a yere after Nabuchodonosor sent and broght him to Babylon with the holy vessels of the Lord. 46And he made Sedecias King of Iudea and Ierusalem when he was one and twentie yere olde, & he reigned eleuen yeres. 47And he did euil in the sight of the Lord, nether did he feare the wordes spoken* by Ieremias the Prophet from the mouth of the Lord. 48For after that he was sworne to King Nabuchodonosor, he forsware him self by the Name of the Lord and fel away, and hardened his necke and his heart, and transgressed the Lawes of the Lord God of Israel. 49Also the gouerners of the people, and the Priests committed many things against the lawes and passed all the pollucions of all nacions, and polluted the Temple of the Lord, which was sanctified in Ierusalém. 50Neuertheles the God of their Fathers sent his messenger to call them backe, because he spared them and his owne Tabernacle. 51But thei derided his messengers, and in the day, that the Lord spake vnto them, thei mocked his Prophetes, 52So that he, being moued to angre against his people for their great wickednes, commanded the Kings of the Chaldeans to inuade them. 53These killed their yong men with the sworde rounde about their holie Temple, nether did they spare yong man, nor maiden, nether olde man, nor childe among them. 54But he deliuered them all into their hands, and all the holy vessels of the Lord, bothe great & smale with the vessels of the Arke of God: and they toke, & caryed away the Kings treasures into Babylon. 55And thei set fyre in the House of the Lord and brake downe the walles of Ierusalem and burnt their towres with fyre. 56They consumed also all the precious things thereof, & broght them to noght, and those that were left by the sworde, he caryed away into Babylon. 57And they were seruants to him, & to his children til the Persians reigned, to fulfil the worde of the Lord by the mouth of *Ieremias, 58And that the land might enioye her Sabbaths all the time, that it was desolate, til seuentie yeres were accomplished.