¹Josiah kept a Passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem: and they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

¹In Josija je praznoval pasho GOSPODU v Jeruzalemu, in zaklali so velikonočno jagnje štirinajsti dan prvega meseca.

²He set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them to the service of the house of Yahweh.

²In postavil je duhovnike na njih straže ter jih ohrabril za službo hiše GOSPODOVE.

³He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to Yahweh, “Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built. There shall no more be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve Yahweh your God, and his people Israel.

³In dejal je levitom, ki so učili vsega Izraela, ki so bili sveti GOSPODU: Denite sveto skrinjo v hišo, ki jo je zgradil Salomon, sin Davidov, kralj Izraelov! Ni vam več v breme na rami, zato služite sedaj GOSPODU, Bogu svojemu, in ljudstvu njegovemu, Izraelu.

⁴Prepare yourselves after your fathers’ houses by your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.

⁴In pripravite se po svojih očetovskih hišah, po svojih oddelkih, kakor je predpisal David, kralj Izraelov, in kakor je predpisal Salomon, sin njegov.

⁵Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of your brothers the children of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a fathers’ house of the Levites.

⁵In stojte v svetišču po vrstah očetovskih hiš bratov svojih, sinov naroda, in sicer vsakikrat en oddelek očetovske hiše levitov.

⁶Kill the Passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the word of Yahweh by Moses.”

⁶In zakoljite pasho in posvetite se in pripravite jo za brate svoje, da storite po besedi GOSPODOVI, dani po Mojzesu.

⁷Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and young goats, all of them for the Passover offerings, to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bulls: these were of the king’s substance.

⁷In Josija je podaril sinom naroda drobnice, jagnjet in kozličev, trideset tisoč po številu, vse za daritve pashe vsem, ki so bili pričujoči, in tri tisoč goved; to je bilo od imetja kraljevega.

⁸His princes gave for a freewill offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of God’s house, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small livestock, and three hundred head of cattle.

⁸Njegovi knezi pa so podarili radovoljno ljudstvu, duhovnikom in levitom. Hilkija in Zeharija in Jehiel, poglavarji hiše Božje, so dali duhovnikom za daritve pashe dva tisoč in šeststo glav drobnice in tristo goved.

⁹Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small livestock, and five hundred head of cattle.

⁹Konanija pa, Semaja in Netanel, njegova brata, in Hasabija in Jegiel in Jozabad, prvaki levitov, so podarili levitom za daritve pashe pet tisoč glav drobnice in petsto goved.

¹⁰So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king’s commandment.

¹⁰In tako je bila služba pripravljena, in duhovniki so stali na mestu svojem, tudi leviti po svojih oddelkih, kakor je bil kralj ukazal.

¹¹They killed the Passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received of their hand, and the Levites flayed them.

¹¹In zaklali so pasho in duhovniki so škropili kri, prejemajoč jo iz njih roke, in leviti so devali daritve iz kože.

¹²They removed the burnt offerings, that they might give them according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of the children of the people, to offer to Yahweh, as it is written in the book of Moses. So they did with the cattle.

¹²In denejo vstran žgalne daritve, da bi jih porazdelili vrstam očetovskih hiš, sinovom naroda, da jih darujejo GOSPODU, kakor je pisano v knjigi Mojzesovi. In enako store tudi z govedjo.

¹³They roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance: and the holy offerings boiled they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of the people.

¹³In pekli so pasho na ognju po predpisu; kar pa je bilo posvečeno, so kuhali v loncih, v kotlih in v ponvah, in hitro to delili vsem sinovom naroda.

¹⁴Afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron were busy with offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night: therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.

¹⁴In potem so pripravili za sebe in za duhovnike; kajti duhovniki, sinovi Aronovi, so imeli opravek z darovanjem žgalščin in tolstine do noči, zato so leviti pripravili zase in za duhovnike, sinove Aronove.

¹⁵The singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the porters were at every gate: they didn’t need to depart from their service; for their brothers the Levites prepared for them.

¹⁵In pevci, sinovi Asafovi, so bili na svojem mestu, po zapovedi Davida in Asafa, Hemana in Jedutuna, kraljevega vidca, in vratarji so bili pri vseh vratih, ni jim bilo treba odhajati od svoje službe, ker so njih bratje, leviti, pripravili zanje.

¹⁶So all the service of Yahweh was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of Yahweh, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

¹⁶Tako je bila tisti dan pripravljena vsa služba GOSPODU, da se praznuje pasha ter da se darujejo žgalne daritve na oltarju GOSPODOVEM, po zapovedi kralja Josija.

¹⁷The children of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

¹⁷In praznovali so tisti čas sinovi Izraelovi, ki so bili navzočni, pasho in praznik opresnikov sedem dni.

¹⁸There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

¹⁸In ni se praznovala pasha v Izraelu enaka tej od dni Samuela proroka, tudi noben kraljev Izraelovih ni priredil take pashe, kakor jo je Josija praznoval z duhovniki vred in z leviti in z vsemi Judovimi in z Izraelci, ki so bili pričujoči, in s prebivalci jeruzalemskimi.

¹⁹In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this Passover kept.

¹⁹V osemnajstem letu kraljevanja Josijevega se je praznovala ta pasha.

²⁰After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.

²⁰Po vsem tem, ko je bil kralj Josija spravil v red tempelj, pride gori Neko, kralj egiptovski, da bi se bojeval zoper Karkemiš pri Evfratu; in Josija mu pride nasproti.

²¹But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you this day, but against the house with which I have war. God has commanded me to make haste. Beware that it is God who is with me, that he not destroy you.”

²¹On pa mu pošlje poslance in sporoči: Kaj imam s teboj, kralj Judov? Ne grem zoper tebe ta dan, ampak zoper hišo, ki je v boju z menoj, in Bog mi je velel, da naj hitim. Nehaj se vtikati v boj z Bogom, ki je z menoj, da te ne pokonča.

²²Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and didn’t listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

²²A Josija ni hotel odvrniti obraza od njega, temuč preoblekel se je, da bi se bojeval ž njim, in ni poslušal besed Nekovih iz Božjih ust, pa je šel bojevat se na ravnini pri Megidu.

²³The archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, because I am seriously wounded!”

²³In strelci so ustrelili kralja Josija, in kralj je velel hlapcem svojim: Peljite me stran, kajti hudo sem ranjen.

²⁴So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

²⁴Hlapci njegovi ga torej preneso z voza in ga polože na drugi voz, ki ga je imel, ter ga pripeljejo v Jeruzalem; in umrl je, in bil je pokopan v grobovih očetov svojih. In ves Juda in Jeruzalem je žaloval po Josiju.

²⁵Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and behold, they are written in the lamentations.

²⁵In Jeremija je spesnil žalostinko za Josija, in vsi pevci in pevke so govorili o Josiju v svojih žalostinkah do tega dne, in vpeljali so jih v navado v Izraelu. In glej, zapisane so v žalostinkah Jeremijevih.

²⁶Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds, according to that which is written in the law of Yahweh,

²⁶Kar je pa več praviti o Josiju, in njegova pobožna dela po vsem, kar je pisano v zakonu GOSPODOVEM,in dejanja njegova, prva in poslednja, glej, zapisana so v knjigi kraljev Izraelovih in Judovih.

²⁷and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

²⁷in dejanja njegova, prva in poslednja, glej, zapisana so v knjigi kraljev Izraelovih in Judovih.