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The Darby Translation

2 Chronicles 35:16

And all the service of Jehovah was prepared the same day, to hold the passover, and to offer burnt-offerings on the altar of Jehovah according to the commandment of king Josiah.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Josiah;   Levites;   Liberality;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Josiah;   Passover;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Apocrypha;   Feasts and Festivals of Israel;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Josiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread;   Zachariah, Zacharias;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Passover (I.);   Preparation ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Josiah ;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Burnt-offerings;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So all the service of the Lord was established that day for observing the Passover and for offering burnt offerings on the altar of the Lord, according to the command of King Josiah.
Hebrew Names Version
So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the Pesach, and to offer burnt-offerings on the altar of the LORD, according to the mitzvah of king Yoshiyahu.
King James Version
So all the service of the Lord was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the Lord , according to the commandment of king Josiah.
English Standard Version
So all the service of the Lord was prepared that day, to keep the Passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the Lord , according to the command of King Josiah.
New Century Version
So everything was done that day for the worship of the Lord , as King Josiah commanded. The Passover was celebrated, and the burnt offerings were offered on the Lord 's altar.
New English Translation
So all the preparations for the Lord 's service were made that day, as the Passover was observed and the burnt sacrifices were offered on the altar of the Lord , as prescribed by King Josiah.
Amplified Bible
So all the service of the LORD was prepared on that day to celebrate the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, in accordance with the command of King Josiah.
New American Standard Bible
So all the service of the LORD was prepared on that day to celebrate the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD according to the command of King Josiah.
World English Bible
So all the service of Yahweh was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt-offerings on the altar of Yahweh, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So all the seruice of the Lord was prepared the same day, to keepe the Passeouer, and to offer burnt offerings vpon the altar of the Lord, according to the commandement of King Iosiah.
Legacy Standard Bible
So all the service of Yahweh was prepared on that day to celebrate the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of Yahweh according to the commandment of King Josiah.
Berean Standard Bible
So on that day the entire service of the LORD was carried out for celebrating the Passover and offering burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, according to the command of King Josiah.
Contemporary English Version
So on that day, Passover was celebrated to honor the Lord , and sacrifices were offered on the altar to him, just as Josiah had commanded.
Complete Jewish Bible
Thus all the service of Adonai was prepared the same day for observing Pesach and offering burnt offerings on the altar of Adonai , in accordance with the order of King Yoshiyahu.
Easy-to-Read Version
So everything was done that day for the worship of the Lord as King Josiah commanded. The Passover was celebrated and the burnt offerings were offered on the Lord 's altar.
George Lamsa Translation
So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of King Josiah.
Good News Translation
So, as King Josiah had commanded, everything was done that day for the worship of the Lord , the keeping of the Passover Festival, and the offering of burnt offerings on the altar.
Lexham English Bible
So all the service of Yahweh was prepared on that day to keep the Passover and to sacrifice burnt offerings on the altar of Yahweh, according to the command of King Josiah.
Literal Translation
And all the service of Jehovah was prepared on that day, to perform the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of Jehovah, according to the command of King Josiah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus was all the Gods seruyce prepared the same daye, that the Passeouer mighte be kepte, and the burntsacrifices offred vpon the altare off the LORDE acordinge to the commaundement of kynge Iosias.
American Standard Version
So all the service of Jehovah was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt-offerings upon the altar of Jehovah, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
Bible in Basic English
So everything needed for the worship of the Lord was made ready that same day, for the keeping of the Passover and the offering of burned offerings on the altar of the Lord, as King Josiah had given orders.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so all the seruice of the Lord was prepared the same day, to offer passouer, and to offer burnt offeringes vpon the aulter of the Lord, according to the commaundement of king Iosia,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt-offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
King James Version (1611)
So all the seruice of the Lord was prepared the same day, to keepe the Passeouer, and to offer burnt offerings vpon the altar of the Lord, according to the commaundement of king Iosiah.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So all the service of the Lord was duly ordered and prepared in that day, for keeping the passover, and offering the whole-burnt-sacrifices on the altar of the Lord, according to the command of king Josias.
English Revised Version
So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor al the religioun of the Lord was fillid riytfuli in that day, that thei maden pask, and offriden brent sacrifices on the auter of the Lord, bi the comaundement of kyng Josie.
Update Bible Version
So all the service of Yahweh was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt-offerings on the altar of Yahweh, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
Webster's Bible Translation
So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt-offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
New King James Version
So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, according to the command of King Josiah.
New Living Translation
The entire ceremony for the Lord 's Passover was completed that day. All the burnt offerings were sacrificed on the altar of the Lord , as King Josiah had commanded.
New Life Bible
All the work of the Lord was made ready that day to keep the Passover, and to give burnt gifts on the Lord's altar, as King Josiah had said.
New Revised Standard
So all the service of the Lord was prepared that day, to keep the passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the Lord , according to the command of King Josiah.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus was all the service of Yahweh prepared on that day; to keep the passover, and to offer up the ascending-sacrifice, upon the altar of Yahweh, - according to the commandment of King Josiah.
Douay-Rheims Bible
So all the service of the Lord was duly accomplished that day, both in keeping the phase and offering holocausts upon the altar of the Lord, according to the commandment of king Josias.
Revised Standard Version
So all the service of the LORD was prepared that day, to keep the passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, according to the command of King Josi'ah.
Young's Literal Translation
And all the service of Jehovah is prepared on that day, to keep the passover, and to cause to ascend burnt-offering upon the altar of Jehovah, according to the command of king Josiah.
THE MESSAGE
Everything went without a hitch in the worship of God that day as they celebrated the Passover and the offering of the Whole-Burnt-Offering on the Altar of God . It went just as Josiah had ordered. The Israelites celebrated the Passover, also known as the Feast of Unraised Bread, for seven days. The Passover hadn't been celebrated like this since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings had done it. But Josiah, the priests, the Levites, all Judah and Israel who were there that week, plus the citizens of Jerusalem—they did it. In the eighteenth year of the rule of King Josiah, this Passover was celebrated.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So all the service of the LORD was prepared on that day to celebrate the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD according to the command of King Josiah.

Contextual Overview

1 And Josiah held a passover to Jehovah in Jerusalem; and they slaughtered the passover on the fourteenth of the first month. 2 And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of Jehovah. 3 And he said to the Levites, that taught all Israel, [and] who were holy to Jehovah, Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built; ye have not to carry it upon your shoulders. Serve now Jehovah your God, and his people Israel; 4 and prepare yourselves by your fathers' houses, in your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son; 5 and stand in the sanctuary for the classes of the fathers' houses, for your brethren, the children of the people, and [according] to the divisions of the fathers' houses of the Levites; 6 and slaughter the passover, and hallow yourselves, and prepare it for your brethren, that they may do according to the word of Jehovah through Moses. 7 And Josiah gave for the children of the people a heave-offering of the flocks, lambs and goats, all for the passover-offerings, for all that were present—to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance. 8 And his princes gave a voluntary heave-offering for the people, for the priests, and for the Levites: Hilkijah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the passover-offerings two thousand six hundred [small cattle] and three hundred oxen; 9 and Conaniah, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave as heave-offering to the Levites for the passover-offerings five thousand [small cattle] and five hundred oxen. 10 And the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions, according to the king's commandment.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Genesis 45:21 - commandment

Cross-References

Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy travail and thy pregnancy; with pain thou shalt bear children; and to thy husband shall be thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.
Genesis 35:19
And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which [is] Bethlehem.
Genesis 48:7
And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was yet a certain distance to come to Ephrath; and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem.
Ruth 1:2
And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem-Judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.
2 Kings 5:19
And he said to him, Go in peace. And he departed from him a little way.
1 Chronicles 2:19
And Azubah died, and Caleb took him Ephrath, and she bore him Hur.
Psalms 132:6
Behold, we heard of it at Ephratah, we found it in the fields of the wood.
Micah 5:2
(And thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall he come forth unto me [who is] to be Ruler in Israel: whose goings forth are from of old, from the days of eternity.)
Matthew 2:1
Now Jesus having been born in Bethlehem of Judaea, in the days of Herod the king, behold magi from the east arrived at Jerusalem, saying,
Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, seeing that he had been mocked by the magi, was greatly enraged; and sent and slew all the boys which [were] in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time which he had accurately inquired from the magi.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So all the service of the Lord was prepared the same day,.... With every sacrifice, and for all sorts of persons:

to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the Lord; which were required to be done on that day:

according to the commandment of King Josiah; which was, that every thing be provided, prepared, and done, as the law required.


 
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