25. Because they have forsaken me, and burned incense unto other gods, and provoked me to anger with all the works of their hands. And my wrath shall be kindled upon this place, and shall not be quenched.

And unto the king of Judah, which sent you to enquire of the LORD, ye shall say thus, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard: 27. Because thine heart was moved, and thou humbledst thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and hast humbled thyself before me, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me, I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.

Behold, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof: and they told the king again.

And the king sent, and called for all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, both small and great: and all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD were read in their ears.

And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to do according to all the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

And all that were in Jerusalem, and in Benjamin, stood there. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

And Josiah put away all the abominations out of all the countries that were of the children of Israel, and caused all that were found in Israel to serve the LORD their God. As long as Josiah lived, they departed not from the LORD their fathers’ God.
(2 Chronicles)
Chapter 35
Josiah keeps Passover, perishes in battle,

And Josiah kept the passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem, and slew the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

And he put the priests in their charge, and strengthened them for their service in the house of the LORD.

And he spake unto the Levites, which taught all Israel, and were sanctified unto the LORD: Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built. Ye shall not bear it upon your shoulders. Serve therefore the LORD your God, and his people Israel.

And, Set the house of your fathers in your order, as it was described by David king of Israel, and by Solomon his son.

And stand in the sanctuary after the order of the fathers’ houses among your brethren, born of the people, even the order of the fathers’ houses among the Levites.

And kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and send your brethren to do according to the word of the LORD by Moses.

And Josiah gave for an offering to the common man lambs and kids of the goats, all for the passover, for all that were present, thirty thousand in number, and three thousand oxen, and all of the king’s substance.

And his princes gave freely for the people, and for the priests, and for the Levites (Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the princes of the house of God among the priests), for the passover, two thousand and six hundred lambs and goats, and three hundred oxen.

And Hananiah, and Shemaiah, and Nethaneel, and his brethren, Hashabiah, and Jeiel, and Jozabad, the chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for the passover five thousand lambs and goats, and five hundred oxen.

So the service was appointed; and the priests sat in their place, and the Levites in their order, according to the king’s commandment.

And they slew the passover; and the priests took of their hands, and sprinkled, and the Levites skinned them.

And they offered the burnt offerings thereof, that they might offer them among the parts of the fathers’ houses in their common multitude unto the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so they did with the oxen.

And they cooked the passover by the fire, as it was meet. And that which was hallowed they cooked in pots, and in kettles, and in pans. And they made it in haste for the common multitude.

And afterward they prepared also for themselves, and for the priests. For the priests, the sons of Aaron, prepared the burnt offering and the fat until night. Therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.

And they, the singers, the children of Asaph, sat in their place according to the commandment of David, and of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jedithun, the king’s porter, and the porters of all the gates: and they departed not from their service: for the Levites their brethren prepared for them,

So all the service of the LORD that day was ordained,” that they kept the passover, and offered burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king
Josiah.

So the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

And there was no passover kept in Israel like unto this from the time of Samuel the prophet, neither had there been a king in Israel that kept such a passover as Josiah kept, and the Levites the priests, all Judah, and all that were present of Israel, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.

And it came to pass after this, when Josiah had made ready the house, that Necho king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish at Phrath. And Josiah went out to meet him.

But he sent messengers unto him, saying, What have I to do with thee, O king Judas? I come not now against thee, but I contend against a house, and God hath told me to haste. Hear of God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.

But Josiah turned not his face from him, but stood to contend with him, and hearkened not to the words of Necho out of the mouth of God; and came to contend with him in the plain at Megiddo.

But they that shot the king Josiah. And the king said unto his servants: Lead me over, for I am very sore.

And his servants took him out of the chariot, and led him in his other chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem: and he died, and was buried among the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

And Jeremiah lamented Josiah; and all the singers and singers spake their lamentations over Josiah unto this day, and made it a custom in Israel. Behold, it is written among the lamentations.

But the more that is to be said of Josiah, and his mercy according to the scriptures in the law of the LORD.

And the acts thereof, both the first and the last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
(2 Chronicles)
Chapter 36
Of Josiah’s successors and the Babylonian captivity.

And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s stead at Jerusalem.

Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

For the king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and made an atonement for the land of an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But Jehoahaz his brother Necho took, and brought him into Egypt.

Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him with chains, to bring him to Babylon.

Nebuchadnezzar also brought some vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.

And the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and which were found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and did evil in the sight of the LORD.

And it came to pass, when the year was expired, that Nebuchadnezzar sent and took him to Babylon with the precious vessels that were in the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem;

Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet, which spake out of the mouth of the LORD.

And he turned away from Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, which had taken an oath of him by God, and was stiffnecked, and hardened his heart, that he turned not unto the LORD God of Israel.

And all the chief of the priests with the people sinned much after all the abominations