2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 164
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1 Yosiah his charge to the Priests and
Levites. 7 A great Passover is kept. 32 His
death is much lamented: 34 His Successors.
53 The Temple, City, and people are
destroyed. 56 The rest are carried unto
Babylon.
Yosiah Celebrates
Passover
the
1 And Yosiah held the Feast
of the Passover in Yerusalem
unto his Yahuah, and offered
Cf.
2 Ki. 23:22; the Passover the fourteenth
2 Chr. 35:1.
day of the first month:
2 Having set the Priests
according to their daily
courses, being arrayed in long
garments, in the Temple of
Yahuah.
Cf. Ez. 40:46, 3 And he spoke unto the
44:15, 48:11.
The Levite Levites the holy ministers of
Temple
Priests Israel, that they should hallow
remained
holy just as themselves unto Yahuah, to
Ezra. This
book was in set the holy Ark of Yahuah, in
their library
or what we the house that king Solomon
would call the son of David had built:
today, Bible
in Qumran/ 4 And said, You shall no
Bethabara.
more bear the Ark upon your
shoulders: now therefore
serve Yahuah your Elohim,
and minister unto his people
Israel, and prepare you after
your families and kindreds.
5 According as David the
king of Israel prescribed, and
according to the magnificence
of Solomon his son: and
standing in the Temple
according to the several
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dignities of the families of you
the Levites, who minister in
the presence of your brethren
the children of Israel.
6 Offer the Passover in order,
and make ready the sacrifices
for your brethren, and keep
the Passover according to the
commandment of Yahuah,
which was given unto Moses.
7 And unto the people that
were found there, Yosiah
gave thirty thousand lambs,
and kids, and three thousand
calves: these things were
given of the kings allowance,
according as he promised to
the people, to the Priests, and
to the Levites.
8 And Hilkiah, Zechariah,
and Yehiel the governors of
the Temple, gave to the Priests
for the Passover, two thousand
and six hundred sheep, and
three hundred calves.
9 And Yeconiah, and
Shemaiah, and Nethanel his
brother, and Hashabiah, and
Ochiel, and Yoram captains
over thousands, gave to the
Levites for the Passover five
hundred
thousand sheep, and seven Five
calves,
Cf. 2 Chr.
hundred calves.
10 And when these things were
done, the Priests and Levites
having the unleavened bread,
stood in very comely order
according to the kindreds,
11 And according to the
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