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Tuesday, November 11th, 2025
the Week of Proper 27 / Ordinary 32
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New Century Version

2 Chronicles 35:2

Josiah chose the priests to do their duties, and he encouraged them as they served in the Temple of the Lord .

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Josiah;   Levites;   Liberality;   Thompson Chain Reference - Discouragement-Encouragement;   Encouragement;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ark;   Josiah;   Levite;   Priest;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Apocrypha;   Feasts and Festivals of Israel;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Josiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hilkiah;   Josiah;   Pentateuch;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread;   Samaias;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Passover (I.);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Josiah ;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Josiah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He appointed the priests to their responsibilities and encouraged them to serve in the Lord’s temple.
Hebrew Names Version
He set the Kohanim in their offices, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD.
King James Version
And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the Lord ,
English Standard Version
He appointed the priests to their offices and encouraged them in the service of the house of the Lord .
New English Translation
He appointed the priests to fulfill their duties and encouraged them to carry out their service in the Lord 's temple.
Amplified Bible
He appointed the priests to their positions and encouraged them in the service of the house of the LORD.
New American Standard Bible
He appointed the priests to their offices and encouraged them in the service of the house of the LORD.
World English Bible
He set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them to the service of the house of Yahweh.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And he appointed the Priestes to their charges, and incouraged them to the seruice of the house of the Lord,
Legacy Standard Bible
And he caused the priests to stand in their responsibilities and strengthened them in the service of the house of Yahweh.
Berean Standard Bible
He appointed the priests to their duties and encouraged them in the service of the house of the LORD.
Contemporary English Version
On that day, Josiah made sure the priests knew what duties they were to do in the temple.
Complete Jewish Bible
He assigned the cohanim to their posts and encouraged them to perform the service of the house of Adonai .
Darby Translation
And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
Josiah chose the priests to do their duties. He encouraged the priests while they were serving in the Lord 's Temple.
George Lamsa Translation
And he set the priests in their charges, and appointed them over the service of the house of the LORD,
Good News Translation
He assigned to the priests the duties they were to perform in the Temple and encouraged them to do them well.
Lexham English Bible
And he set the priests at their posts and encouraged them in the service of the house of Yahweh.
Literal Translation
And he made the priests stand over their charges, and made them strong for the service of the house of Jehovah,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and set the prestes in their offices, and strengthed them to their mynistracion in the house of the LORDE,
American Standard Version
And he set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them to the service of the house of Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
And he gave the priests their places, making them strong for the work of the house of God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he set the priestes in their offices, and ayded them in the seruice of the house of the Lorde,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
And hee set the Priestes in their charges, and encouraged them to the seruice of the house of the Lord,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he appointed the priests at their charges, and encouraged them for the services of the house of the Lord.
English Revised Version
And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he ordeynede prestis in her offices; and he comaundide hem for to mynystre in the hows of the Lord.
Update Bible Version
And he set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them to the service of the house of Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,
New King James Version
And he set the priests in their duties and encouraged them for the service of the house of the LORD.
New Living Translation
Josiah also assigned the priests to their duties and encouraged them in their work at the Temple of the Lord .
New Life Bible
He gave the religious leaders their duties and gave them strength to do the work of the Lord's house.
New Revised Standard
He appointed the priests to their offices and encouraged them in the service of the house of the Lord .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he set the priests over their charges, - and encouraged them unto the service of the house of Yahweh;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he set the priests in their offices, and exhorted them to minister in the house of the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
He appointed the priests to their offices and encouraged them in the service of the house of the LORD.
Young's Literal Translation
and he stationeth the priests over their charges, and strengtheneth them for the service of the house of Jehovah,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He set the priests in their offices and encouraged them in the service of the house of the LORD.

Contextual Overview

1 King Josiah celebrated the Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem. The Passover lamb was killed on the fourteenth day of the first month. 2 Josiah chose the priests to do their duties, and he encouraged them as they served in the Temple of the Lord . 3 The Levites taught the Israelites and were made holy for service to the Lord . Josiah said to them, "Put the Holy Ark in the Temple that David's son Solomon, the king of Israel, built. Do not carry it from place to place on your shoulders anymore. Now serve the Lord your God and his people Israel. 4 Prepare yourselves by your family groups for service, and do the jobs that King David and his son Solomon gave you to do. 5 "Stand in the holy place with a group of the Levites for each family group of the people. 6 Kill the Passover lambs, and make yourselves holy to the Lord . Prepare the lambs for your relatives, the people of Israel, as the Lord through Moses commanded us to do." 7 Josiah gave the Israelites thirty thousand sheep and goats to kill for the Passover sacrifices, and he gave them three thousand cattle. They were all his own animals. 8 Josiah's officers also gave willingly to the people, the priests, and the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the officers in charge of the Temple, gave the priests twenty-six hundred lambs and goats and three hundred cattle for Passover sacrifices. 9 Conaniah, his brothers Shemaiah and Nethanel, and Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad gave the Levites five thousand sheep and goats and five hundred cattle for Passover sacrifices. These men were leaders of the Levites. 10 When everything was ready for the Passover service, the priests and Levites went to their places, as the king had commanded.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

charges: 2 Chronicles 23:8, 2 Chronicles 23:18, 2 Chronicles 31:2, Numbers 18:5-7, 1 Chronicles 24:1-31, Ezra 6:18

encouraged: 2 Chronicles 29:5-11, 2 Chronicles 31:2, 1 Chronicles 22:19

Reciprocal: Joshua 3:8 - command 2 Kings 12:4 - said to the priests

Cross-References

Genesis 18:19
I have chosen him so he would command his children and his descendants to live the way the Lord wants them to, to live right and be fair. Then I, the Lord , will give Abraham what I promised him."
Genesis 31:19
While Laban was gone to cut the wool from his sheep, Rachel stole the idols that belonged to him.
Genesis 31:34
Rachel had hidden the idols inside her camel's saddle and was sitting on them. Although Laban looked through the whole tent, he did not find them.
Genesis 34:2
When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of the land, saw her, he took her and forced her to have sexual relations with him.
Genesis 35:1
God said to Jacob, "Go to the city of Bethel and live there. Make an altar to the God who appeared to you there when you were running away from your brother Esau."
Genesis 35:2
So Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods you have, and make yourselves clean, and change your clothes.
Genesis 35:3
We will leave here and go to Bethel. There I will build an altar to God, who has helped me during my time of trouble. He has been with me everywhere I have gone."
Genesis 35:4
So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had, and the earrings they were wearing, and he hid them under the great tree near the town of Shechem.
Genesis 35:7
There Jacob built an altar and named the place Bethel, after God, because God had appeared to him there when he was running from his brother.
Genesis 35:10
God said to him, "Your name is Jacob, but you will not be called Jacob any longer. Your new name will be Israel." So he called him Israel.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he set the priests in their charges,.... In their offices, and in their proper places, to execute them:

and encouraged them to the service of the house of the Lord; to attend it with cheerfulness and constancy, and do it according to the will of God, promising his favour and protection.


 
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