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Friday, August 29th, 2025
the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Revised Standard Version

2 Kings 23:23

but in the eighteenth year of King Josi'ah this passover was kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Josiah;   Passover;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Feast of the Passover, the;   Money;   Zeal;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Zephaniah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Gods and Goddesses, Pagan;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Josiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Festivals;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Hexateuch;   Hilkiah;   Idolatry;   Mizpah, Mizpeh;   Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread;   Temple;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Josiah ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Raca;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - New Testament;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the Lord’s Passover was observed in Jerusalem.
Hebrew Names Version
but in the eighteenth year of king Yoshiyahu was this Pesach kept to the LORD in Yerushalayim.
King James Version
But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem.
English Standard Version
But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah this Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.
New Century Version
This Passover was celebrated to the Lord in Jerusalem in the eighteenth year of King Josiah's rule.
New English Translation
But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah's reign, such a Passover of the Lord was observed in Jerusalem.
Amplified Bible
But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover to the LORD was kept in Jerusalem.
New American Standard Bible
But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was celebrated to the LORD in Jerusalem.
World English Bible
but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this Passover kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And in the eightenth yere of King Iosiah was this Passeouer celebrated to the Lord in Ierusalem.
Legacy Standard Bible
But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was celebrated to Yahweh in Jerusalem.
Berean Standard Bible
But in the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah this Passover was observed to the LORD in Jerusalem.
Contemporary English Version
But in Josiah's eighteenth year as king of Judah, everyone came to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover.
Complete Jewish Bible
But in the eighteenth year of King Yoshiyahu this Pesach was observed to Adonai in Yerushalayim.
Darby Translation
but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover holden to Jehovah in Jerusalem.
Easy-to-Read Version
They celebrated this Passover for the Lord in Jerusalem during Josiah's 18th year as king.
George Lamsa Translation
Like that in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, when this passover was kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.
Good News Translation
Now at last, in the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah, the Passover was celebrated in Jerusalem.
Lexham English Bible
But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was kept for Yahweh in Jerusalem.
Literal Translation
but in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was prepared to Jehovah in Jerusalem.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but in the eightenth yeare of kynge Iosias, was this Easter kepte vnto the LORDE at Ierusalem.
American Standard Version
but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to Jehovah in Jerusalem.
Bible in Basic English
In the eighteenth year of the rule of King Josiah this Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
In the eighteenth yere of king Iosia, was this Passouer holden to the Lord in Hierusalem.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.
King James Version (1611)
But in the eighteenth yeere of king Iosiah, wherein this Passeouer was holden to the Lord in Ierusalem.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But in the eighteenth year of king Josias, was the passover kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.
English Revised Version
but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
as this pask was maad to the Lord in Jerusalem in the eiytenthe yeer of kyng Josias.
Update Bible Version
but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem.
Webster's Bible Translation
But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, [in which] this passover was held to the LORD in Jerusalem.
New King James Version
But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah this Passover was held before the LORD in Jerusalem.
New Living Translation
But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah's reign, this Passover was celebrated to the Lord in Jerusalem.
New Life Bible
But this Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem in the eighteenth year of King Josiah.
New Revised Standard
but in the eighteenth year of King Josiah this passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
save only, in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, when this passover was held unto Yahweh, in Jerusalem.
Douay-Rheims Bible
As was this Phase, that was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem, in the eighteenth year of king Josias.
Young's Literal Translation
but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, hath this passover been made to Jehovah in Jerusalem.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was observed to the LORD in Jerusalem.

Contextual Overview

4 And the king commanded Hilki'ah, the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels made for Ba'al, for Ashe'rah, and for all the host of heaven; he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. 5 And he deposed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places at the cities of Judah and round about Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Ba'al, to the sun, and the moon, and the constellations, and all the host of the heavens. 6 And he brought out the Ashe'rah from the house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves of the common people. 7 And he broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes which were in the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the Ashe'rah. 8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on one's left at the gate of the city. 9 However, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brethren. 10 And he defiled To'pheth, which is in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to Molech. 11 And he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 12 And the altars on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manas'seh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, he pulled down and broke in pieces, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron. 13 And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ash'toreth the abomination of the Sido'nians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 16:7 - in the place Ezekiel 4:6 - forty days

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem. This shows that Josiah must begin the reformation very early that year, since he did all that is before recorded in this and the preceding chapter by the fourteenth of Nisan, the day on which the passover was kept, which month answers to part of our March and part of April, see 2 Kings 22:3 and was the same year the repairs of the temple were finished.


 
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