He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to the LORD, “Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built. It will no longer be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Chronicles 35:3 in context
2 Chronicles 35:1–6
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Josiah kept a Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem. They killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
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He set the priests in their offices and encouraged them in the service of the LORD’s house.
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He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to the LORD, “Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built. It will no longer be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel.
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Prepare 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.
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Stand 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.
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