2 Chronicles 35:2-19

2He set the priests in their offices and 1encouraged them in the service of the house of the Lord. 3He also said to 2the Levites who taught all Israel and who were holy to the Lord, “Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built; 3it will be a burden on your shoulders no longer. Now serve the Lord your God and His people Israel. 44Prepare yourselves by your fathers’ households in your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel and 5according to the writing of his son Solomon. 5Moreover, 6stand in the holy place according to the sections of the fathers’ households of your brethren the 7lay people, and according to the Levites, by division of a father’s household. 6Now 8slaughter the Passover animals, 9sanctify yourselves and prepare for your brethren to do according to the word of the Lord by Moses.”

7Josiah contributed to the lay people, to all who were present, flocks of lambs and young goats, all for the Passover offerings, numbering 30,000 plus 3,000 bulls; these were from the king’s possessions. 8His officers also contributed a freewill offering to the people, the priests and the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, 10the officials of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings 2,600 from the flocks and 300 bulls. 911Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the officers of the Levites, contributed to the Levites for the Passover offerings 5,000 from the flocks and 500 bulls.

10So the service was prepared, and 12the priests stood at their stations and the Levites by their divisions according to the king’s command. 111314They slaughtered the Passover animals, and while 15the priests sprinkled 16the blood received from their hand, 17the Levites skinned them. 12Then they removed the burnt offerings that they might give them to the sections of the fathers’ households of the lay people to present to the Lord, as it is written in the book of Moses. They did this also with the bulls. 13So 18they roasted the Passover animals on the fire according to the ordinance, and they boiled 19the holy things in pots, in kettles, in pans, and carried them speedily to all the lay people. 14Afterwards they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron. 15The singers, the sons of Asaph, were also at their stations 20according to the command of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and 21the gatekeepers at each gate did not have to depart from their service, because the Levites their brethren prepared for them.

16So 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. 17Thus 22the sons of Israel who were present celebrated the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days. 1823There had not been celebrated a Passover like it in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet; nor had any of the kings of Israel celebrated such a Passover as Josiah did with the priests, the Levites, all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 19In the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign this Passover was celebrated.