Iosias king of Iuda maketh a great Pasch, 7. geuing manie hostes to
such as wanted for sacrifice: 14. the Priestes and Leuites performing
their functions therin: 22. in the eightenth yeare of his reigne, 25.
He is slayne in battel by the king of AEgypt, 32. and much lamented by
the Iewes. 34. His sonne Ieconias succedeth. 37. After him Ioacim, 40.
who is deposed by the king of Babylon. 43. Ioachim reigneth three
monethes, and is caried into Babylon. 46. Sedecias reigneth eleuen
yeares wickedly. 52. and he with his people is caried captiue into
Babylon, the citie and temple are destroyed. 57. so remayned til the
Monarchie of the Persians.
AND Iosias made a Pasch in Ierusalem to our Lord & immolated the Phase
the fourtenth moone of the moneth: (4 Kings 23:21 / 2 Par 35:1) 2
appointing the Priestes by courses of dayes clothed with stoles in the
temple of our Lord. 3 And he spake to the Leuites the sacred seruantes
of Isreal, that they should sanctifie them selues to our Lord in the
placing of the holie arke of our Lord in the house, which king Salomon
sonne of Dauid built. 4 It shal not be for you to take it vpon your
shoulders. And now serue your Lord, and take the care of that nation
Israel, in part according to your villages and tribes, 5 according to
the writing of Dauid king of Israel, and according to the magnificence
of Salomon his sonne, al in the temple, and according to your fathers
portion of principalitie, among them that stand in the sight of your
brethren the children of Isreal. 6 Immolate the Pasch, and prepare the
sacrifices for your bretheren, and doe according to the precept of our
Lord which was geuen to Moyses. (Ex 12
/ Lev 23 / Num 28) 7 And Iosias gaue vnto the people that was found of
/ sheepe,
lambes, and kiddes, and goates thirtie thousand, calues there thousand.
8 These thinges were geuen to the people of the kinges goodes according
to promisse: and to the priestes for the Phase, sheepe in number two
thousand, and calues an hundred. 9 And Iechonias, and Semeias, and
Nathanael bretheren, and Hasabias, and Oziel, and Coraba for the Phase
sheepe fiue thousand, calues fiue hundred. 10 And when these thinges
were done in good order, the Priestes an the Leuites stood hauing
azymes by tribes. 11 And according to the portions of their fathers
principalitie, in the sight of the people they did offer, to our Lord
according to those thinges, which were written in the booke of Moyses:
12 and rosted the Phase with fire as it ought: and the hostes they
boyled in cauldrons, and in pottes with beneuolence: 13 and they
brought to al that were of the people: and afterward they prepared for
them selues and the priestes. 14 For the Priestes offered the fatte,
vntil the houre was ended: and the Leuites prepared for them selues,
and their brethren, the children of Aaron. 15 And the sacred singing
men, the children of Asaph were by order according to the precept of
Dauid and Asaph, and Zacharias, and Ieddimus, which was from the king.
16 And the porters at euerie gate, so that none transgressed his owne:
for their brethren prepared for them. 17 And the thinges were
consummate that perteyned to the sacrifice of our Lord. 18 In that day
they celebrated the Phase, and offered hostes vpon the sacrifice of our
Lord, according to the precept of king Iosias. 19 And the children of
Israel, that were found at that time, celebrated the Phase: and the
festiual day of Azymes for seuen dayes: 20 and there was not celebrated
such a Phase in Isreal, from the times of Samuel the prophet: 21 and al
the kinges of Israel did not celebrate such a Phase as Iosias did, and
the Priestes, and the Leuites, and the Iewes, and al Israel, that were
found in their abode at Ierusalem. 22 In the eightenth yeare, Iosias
reigning was the Phase celebrated. 23 And the workes of Iosias were
directed in the sight of his Lord in a hart ful of feare: 24 and the
thinges concerning him are writen in the ancient times, touching them
that sinned, and were irreligous against our Lord aboue al nations, and
that sought not the wordes of our Lord vpon Israel. 25 And after al
this fact of Iosias, came vp Pharao the king of AEgypt comming in
Charcamis from the way vpon Euphrates, and Iosias went forth to meete
him. (4 Kings 23:29 / 2 Par 35:20) 26 And the king of AEgypt sent to
Iosias saying: What is there betwen me & thee king of Iuda? 27 I was
not sent of the Lord to fight against thee: for my battel is vpon
Euphrates, goe downe in hast. 28 And Iosias did not returne vpon his
chariote: but endeuoured to ouerthrow him, not attending the word of
the prophet from the mouth of our Lord: 29 but he made battel against
him in the field of Mageddo. And princes went downe to king Iosias. 30
And the king said to his seruantes: Remoue me from the battel, for I am
weakned excedingly. And forthwith his seruantes remoued him out of the
battel. 31 And he went vp into his second chariote: & comming to
Ierusalem, dyed, and was buried in his fathers sepulchre. 32 And in al
Iurie they mourned for Iosias, & the rulers with their wiues lamented
him vntil this day. And this was geuen out to be done alwayes vnto al
the stocke of Israel. 33 But these thinges were writen before in the
booke of the histories of the kinges of Iuda: and al the actes of the
doing of Iosias, and his glorie and his vnderstanding in the law of our
Lord: and the thinges that were done by him, and that are not writen in
the booke of the kinges of Israel and Iuda. 34 And they that were of
the nation, taking Iechonias the sonne of Iosias, made him king for
Iosias his father, when he was three and twentie yeares old. (4 Kings
23:30 / 2 Par 36:1) 35 And he reigned ouer Israel three monethes. And
the king of AEgypt remoued him, that he should not reigne in Ierusalem:
36 and he put a taxe vpon the nation of siluer an hundred talentes, and
of gold one talent. 37 And the king of AEgypt made Ioacim his brother
king of Iuda and Ierusalem: 38 and he bound the magistrates of Ioacim,
and Zaracel his brother, and taking them brought them backe into
AEgypt. 39 Ioacim was fiue and twentie yeares old when he began to
reigne in the land of Iuda and Ierusalem: and he did euil in the sight
of our Lord. 40 And after this man came vp Nabuchodonosor the king of
Babylon, and binding him with a bande of brasse, brought him into
Babylon. 41 And Nabuchodonosor tooke the sacred vessels of our Lord,
and carried away, and consecrated them in his temple in Babylon. 42 For
his vncleanes, and lacke of religion is written in the booke of the
times of the kinges. 43 And Ioachin his sonne reigned for him. And when
he was made king, he was eightene yeares old. 44 And reigned three
monethes and ten dayes in Ierusalem, and did euil in the sight of our
Lord: 45 and after a yeare Nabuchodonosor sending, transported him into
Babylon together with the sacred vessels of our Lord. (4 Kings 24:13)
46 And he made Sedecias king of Iuda and Ierusalem, when he was one and
twentie yeares old: (4 Kings 24:17) and he reigned eleuen yeares. 47
And he did euil in the sight of our Lord, and was not afraid of the
wordes which were spoken by Ieremie the prophet from the mouth of our
Lord: (Jer 37:2) 48 and being sworne of king Nabuchodonosor, forsworne
he did reuolt: and his necke being hardened, & his hart, he
transgressed the ordinances of our Lord the God of Israel. 49 And the
princes of the people of our Lord did manie thinges wickedly, and they
did impiously aboue al the vncleannes of the nations: and they polluted
the temple of our Lord that was holie of Ierusalem. 50 And the God of
their fathers sent by his messenger to reclame them, for that he would
spare them, and his tabernacle. 51 But they scorned at his messengers:
and in the day that our Lord spake to them, they were mocking his
prophetes. 52 Who was moued euen vnto wrath vpon his nation for their
impietie, and commanded the kinges of the Chaldees to come vp. 53 These
slewe their yong men with the sword, round about their holie temple,
and spared not yong man, and old man, and virgin, and youth: 54 but al
were deliuered into their handes: & taking al the sacred vessels of our
Lord, and the kinges treasures, they caried them into Babylon, 55 and
burnt the house of our Lord, and threwe downe the walles of Ierusalem:
and the towres therof they burnt with fire, 56 and consumed al their
honorable thinges, and brought them to naught, and those that were left
of the sword, they led into Babylon. 57 And they were his seruants
vntil the Persians reigned in the fulfilling of the word of our Lord by
the mouth of Ieremie: (Jer 25:12 / Jer 29:10 / Dan 9:2) 58 as long as
the land quietly kept her sabbathes, al the time of her desolation she
sabbathized in the application of seuentie yeares.