18 And there was no Passover kept like that in Israel, from the days of Samuel the Prophet: neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, and the Priests and the Levites, and all Judah, and Israel that were [a]present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

19 This Passover was kept in [b]the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah.

20 (A)After all this, when Josiah had prepared the Temple Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against [c]Carchemish by [d]Perath and Josiah went out against him.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 35:18 Hebrew, found.
  2. 2 Chronicles 35:19 Which was in his six and twentieth year of his age.
  3. 2 Chronicles 35:20 Which was a city of the Assyrians, and Josiah fearing lest he passing through Judah, would have taken his kingdom, made war against him, and consulted not with the Lord.
  4. 2 Chronicles 35:20 Or, Euphrates.

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