2 Kings 23:20-22

Contemporary English Version

²⁰ He killed the priests who served at them and burned their bones on the altars.

After all that, Josiah went back to Jerusalem.

Josiah and the People of Judah Celebrate Passover

(2 Chronicles 35.1-19)

²¹ Josiah told the people of Judah, “Celebrate Passover in honor of the Lord your God, just as it says in The Book of God's Law.”^[a]

²² This festival had not been celebrated in this way since the time that tribal leaders ruled Israel or the kings ruled Israel and Judah.