2Ch 35:1-6 | ESV | STEP | Josiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem . And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month .

2 Chronicles 35:1-6

Josiah Keeps the Passover

1 ^aJosiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem. And they slaughtered the Passover lamb ^bon the fourteenth day of the first month. 2 He appointed the priests to their offices ^cand encouraged them in the service of the house of the Lord. 3 And he said to the Levites ^dwho taught all Israel and who were holy to the Lord, “Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built. You need not carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the Lord your God and his people Israel. 4 Prepare yourselves ^eaccording to your fathers’ houses by your divisions, ^fas prescribed in the writing of David king of Israel ^gand the document of Solomon his son. 5 And ^hstand in the Holy Place ⁱaccording to the groupings of the fathers’ houses of your brothers the lay people, and according to the division of the Levites by fathers’ household. 6 And slaughter the Passover lamb, and ^jconsecrate yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the word of the Lord by Moses.”