1. AND Josias held the passover in Jerusalem to his Lord, and offered the passover the fourteenth day of the first month;
2. having set the priests according to their daily courses, being arrayed in their vestments, in the temple of the Lord.
3. And he spoke to the Levites, the temple-servants of Israel, that they should hallow themselves to the Lord, to set the holy ark of the Lord in the house that King Solomon the son of David had built:
4. and said, You⌃ shall no more have need to bear it upon your shoulders: now therefore serve the Lord your God, and minister to his people Israel, and prepare you after your fathers’ houses and kindred,