Josiah’s great Passover celebration fills 2 Chronicles 35 - the most faithfully kept Passover since Samuel’s day - before the chapter turns to one of Israel’s most mourned tragedies.

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Lyrics

And Josiah kept a Passover unto the Lord in Jerusalem And they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month

And he set the priests in their charges and encouraged them to the service of the house of the Lord And said to the Levites that taught all Israel and were holy unto the Lord

Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build It shall be no more a burden upon your shoulders now serve the Lord your God

And 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

And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses Of your brethren the children of the people and let there be for each a portion of a fathers’ house

Of Levites And kill the Passover and sanctify yourselves and prepare for your brethren

That they may do according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses And Josiah gave to the children of the people a number of lambs and kids all of them for the Passover

For all that were present to the number of thirty thousand and three thousand bullocks These were of the king’s substance And his princes gave willingly unto 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

The Passover celebrated, the people gathered The covenant remembered, the kingdom restored

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2 Chronicles 35 sung by Psalm Selah. The whole Bible, one chapter at a time.

Published 2026-05-22 · Last updated 2026-06-06
Written by Reid Wender, Editorial Director at Psalmody Press