AND Yo'shiyahu held the Feast of Pecach in Yerushalayim unto his Adonai, and offered the Pecach the fourteenth day of the first month;
Having set the priests according to their daily courses, being arrayed in long garments, in the Temple of Yahuah.
And he spoke unto the Leviyiym, the holy ministers of Yashar'el, that they should hallow themselves unto Yahuah, to set the holy Ark of Yahuah in the house that King Shalomah the son of David had built:
And said, Ye shall no more bear the Ark upon your shoulders: now therefore serve Yahuah Elohaykem, and minister unto his people Yashar'el, and prepare you after your families and kindreds,
According as David the king of Yashar'el prescribed, and according to the magnificence of Shalomah his son: and standing in the Temple according to the several dignity of the families of you the Leviyiym, who minister in the presence of your brethren the children of Yashar'el,
Offer the Pecach in order, and make ready the sacrifices for your brethren, and keep the Pecach according to the commandment of Yahuah, which was given unto Mosheh.
And unto the people that was found there Yo'shiyahu gave thirty thousand lambs and kids, and three thousand calves: these things were given of the king's allowance, according as he promised, to the people, to the priests, and to the Leviyiym.
And Chilqiyahu, Zakaryahu, and Ye'iy'el, the governors of the Temple, gave to the priests for the Pecach offerings two thousand and six hundred sheep, and three hundred calves.
And Yekonyahu, and Shema'yahu, and Nethan'el his brother, and Chashavyahu, and Ye'iy'el, and Yoram, captains over thousands, gave to the Leviyiym for the Pecach offerings five thousand sheep, and seven hundred calves.
And when these things were done, the priests and Leviyiym, having the matstsah, stood in very comely order according to the kindreds,
And according to the several dignities of the fathers, before the people, to offer to Yahuah, as it is written in the cepher of Mosheh: and thus did they in the morning.
And they roasted the Pecach with fire, as appertains: as for the sacrifices, they sod them in brass pots and pans with a good savor,
And set them before all the people: and afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests their brethren, the sons of Aharon.
For the priests offered the fat until night: and the Leviyiym prepared for themselves, and the priests their brethren, the sons of Aharon.
The holy singers also, the sons of Acaph, were in their order, according to the appointment of David, to wit, Acaph, Zakaryahu, and Yeduthun, who was of the king's retinue.
Moreover the porters were at every gate; it was against the Torah for any to go from his ordinary service: for their brethren the Leviyiym prepared for them.
Thus were the things that belonged to the sacrifices of Yahuah accomplished in that day, that they might hold the Pecach,
And offer sacrifices upon the altar of Yahuah, according to the commandment of King Yo'shiyahu.
So the children of Yashar'el which were present held the Pecach at that time, and the feast of sweet bread seven days.
And such a Pecach was not kept in Yashar'el since the time of the prophet Shemu'el.
Yea, all the kings of Yashar'el held not such a Pecach as Yo'shiyahu, and the priests, and the Leviyiym, and the Yahudiym, held with all Yashar'el that were found dwelling at Yerushalayim.
In the eighteenth year of the reign of Yo'shiyahu was this Pecach kept.
And the works of Yo'shiyahu were upright before his Adonai with a heart full of holiness.
'As for the things that came to pass in his time, they were written in former times, concerning those that sinned, and did wickedly against Yahuah above all people and kingdoms, and how they grieved him exceedingly, so that the words of Yahuah rose up against Yashar'el.
Now after all these acts of Yo'shiyahu it came to pass, that Phar'oh the king of Mitsrayim came to raise war at Carchamis upon Perath: and Yo'shiyahu went out against him.
'But the king of Mitsrayim sent to him, saying, What have I to do with you, O king of Yahudah?
'I am not sent out from Yahuah Elohiym against you; for my war is upon Perath: and now Yahuah is with me, yea, Yahuah is with me hasting me forward: depart from me, and be not against Yahuah.
'Howbeit Yo'shiyahu did not turn back his chariot from him, but undertook to fight with him, not regarding the words of the prophet Yirmeyahu spoken by the mouth of Yahuah:
But joined battle with him in the plain of Megiddo, and the princes came against King Yo'shiyahu.
'Then said the king unto his servants, Carry me away out of the battle; for I am very weak. And immediately his servants took him away out of the battle.
'Then got he up upon his second chariot; and being brought back to Yerushalayim died, and was buried in his father's sepulchre.
'And in all Yahudah they mourned for Yo'shiyahu, yea, Yirmeyahu the prophet lamented for Yo'shiyahu, and the chief men with the women made lamentation for him unto this day: and this was given out for an ordinance to be done continually in all the nation of Yashar'el.
'These things are written in the cepher of the stories of the kings of Yahudah, and every one of the acts that Yo'shiyahu did, and his glory, and his understanding in the Torah of Yahuah, and the things that he had done before, and the things now recited, are reported in the cepher of the kings of Yashar'el and Yahudah.
'And the people took Yahu'achaz the son of Yo'shiyahu, and made him king instead of Yo'shiyahu his father, when he was twenty and three years old.
'And he reigned in Yahudah and in Yerushalayim three months: and then the king of Mitsrayim deposed him from reigning in Yerushalayim.
'And he set a tax upon the land of a hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.
The king of Mitsrayim also made King Yahuyaqiym his brother king of Yahudah and Yerushalayim.
'And he bound Yahuyaqiym and the nobles: but Zaraces his brother he apprehended, and brought him out of Mitsrayim.
'Five and twenty years old was Yahuyaqiym when he was made king in the land of Yahudah and Yerushalayim; and he did evil before Yahuah.
Wherefore against him Nevukadne'tstsar the king of Babel came up, and bound him with a chain of brass, and carried him into Babel.
'Nevukadne'tstsar also took of the holy vessels of Yahuah, and carried them away, and set them in his own temple at Babel.
'But those things that are recorded of him, and of his uncleaness and impiety, are written in the chronicles of the kings.
'And Yahuyaqiym his son reigned in his stead: he was made king being eighteen years old;
'And reigned but three months and ten days in Yerushalayim; and did evil before Yahuah.
So after a year Nevukadne'tstsar sent and caused him to be brought into Babel with the holy vessels of Yahuah;
'And made Tsidqiyahu king of Yahudah and Yerushalayim, when he was one and twenty years old; and he reigned eleven years:
'And he did evil also in the sight of Yahuah, and cared not for the words that were spoken unto him by the prophet Yirmeyahu from the mouth of Yahuah.
And after that King Nevukadne'tstsar had made him to swear by the name of Yahuah, he forswore himself, and rebelled; and hardening his neck, his heart, he transgressed the Torah of Yahuah Elohiym of Yashar'el.
'The governors also of the people and of the priests did many things against the Torah, and passed all the pollutions of all nations, and defiled the Temple of Yahuah, which was sanctified in Yerushalayim.
'Nevertheless the Elohiym of their fathers sent by his messenger to call them back, because he spared them and his Tabernacle also.
'But they had his messengers in derision; and, look, when Yahuah spoke unto them, they made a sport of his prophets:
'So far forth, that he, being wroth with his people for their great wickedness, commanded the kings of the Kasdiym to come up against them;
'Who slew their young men with the sword, yea, even within the compass of their holy Temple, and spared neither young man nor maid, old man nor child, among them; for he delivered all into their hands.
'And they took all the holy vessels of Yahuah, both great and small, with the vessels of the Ark of Elohiym, and the king's treasures, and carried them away into Babel.
'As for the house of Yahuah, they burnt it, and broke down the walls of Yerushalayim, and set fire upon her towers:
'And as for her glorious things, they never ceased till they had consumed and brought them all to nought: and the people that were not slain with the sword he carried unto Babel:
'Who became servants to him and his children, till the Persians reigned, to fulfil the Word of Yahuah spoken by the mouth of Yirmeyahu:
Until the land had enjoyed her Shabbaths, the whole time of her desolation shall she rest, until the full term of seventy years.