2 Chronicles 35 — Josiah’s Passover and death — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 35:25
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Chapter 35 — Josiah’s Passover and death
Preparations for the Passover
Verse 35:1 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:1] Josiah observed a Passover to YHWH in Jerusalem, and they slaughtered the Passover offering on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:1] Josiah observed the phasek to the Lord his God, and they sacrificed the phasek on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The Hebrew explicitly locates the observance in Jerusalem; the Greek instead adds his God to Lord. The date agrees; phasek preserves the Greek borrowed festival term.
Verse 35:2 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:2] He stationed the priests at their duties and encouraged them for the service of YHWH’s house.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:2] He stationed the priests at their watches and strengthened them for the works of the Lord’s house.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Both appoint and encourage the priests; duties and service correspond to watches and works.
Verse 35:3 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:3] He said to the Levites who instructed all Israel and were holy to YHWH, “Put the holy ark in the house Solomon son of David, king of Israel, built. You have no burden to carry on your shoulders. Now serve YHWH your God and His people Israel.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:3] He told the Levites who were mighty in all Israel to consecrate themselves to the Lord, and they placed the holy ark in the house Solomon son of David, king of Israel, built. The king said, “You have nothing to lift upon your shoulders. Now therefore minister to the Lord your God and His people Israel,
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The Hebrew describes instructing Levites already holy to YHWH and commands placement of the ark. The Greek describes mighty Levites, commands their consecration, narrates their placement of the ark, and explicitly introduces a second royal speech.
Verse 35:4 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:4] Prepare yourselves by your ancestral houses, according to your divisions, following the writing of David king of Israel and the writing of his son Solomon.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:4] and prepare yourselves by your ancestral houses and by your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel and through the hand of his son Solomon,
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Both invoke David’s written arrangement; the Hebrew also expressly names Solomon’s writing, whereas the Greek says through his hand.
Verse 35:5 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:5] Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the ancestral houses of your brothers, the people’s members, with an ancestral-house portion for the Levites.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:5] and stand in the house according to the divisions of your ancestral houses for your brothers, the sons of the people, with a portion of an ancestral house for the Levites,
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The Hebrew names the holy place and links the family divisions to the people; the Greek names the house and explicitly says your ancestral houses before for your brothers.
Verse 35:6 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:6] Slaughter the Passover offering, consecrate yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to act according to YHWH’s word through Moses.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:6] and sacrifice the phasek and prepare the holy things for your brothers, to act according to the Lord’s word through the hand of Moses.”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The Hebrew commands self-consecration; the Greek instead makes holy things the object of preparation. Both invoke the word mediated by Moses.
The gifts and the ordered service
Verse 35:7 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:7] Josiah contributed to the people flock animals—lambs and young goats—all for the Passover offerings for everyone present, thirty thousand in number, and three thousand cattle. These came from the king’s possessions.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:7] Josiah set apart for the sons of the people sheep, lambs, and kids from the offspring of goats, all for the phasek for everyone present, thirty thousand in number, and three thousand calves. These came from the king’s property.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Both retain thirty thousand small livestock and three thousand bovines from royal property. The Greek coordinates sheep and lambs and calls the bovines calves.
Verse 35:8 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:8] His officials freely contributed to the people, priests, and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, leaders of God’s house, gave the priests two thousand six hundred for the Passover offerings and three hundred cattle.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:8] His rulers set apart contributions for the people, priests, and Levites. Hilkiah, Zacharias, and Jiiel, rulers of God’s house, gave to the priests; they gave for the phasek two thousand six hundred sheep, lambs, and kids, and three hundred calves.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The Hebrew explicitly characterizes the officials’ gift as voluntary. The Greek adds the kinds of small livestock and repeats giving; the two quantities agree.
Verse 35:9 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:9] Conaniah, his brothers Shemaiah and Nethanel, and Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, officials of the Levites, contributed to the Levites five thousand for Passover offerings and five hundred cattle.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:9] Chonenias, Banaias, Samaias, his brother Nathanael, and Asabias, Jiiel, and Jozabad, rulers of the Levites, set apart for the Levites five thousand sheep for the phasek and five hundred calves.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The Greek adds Banaias and identifies one brother, Nathanael; the Hebrew identifies Shemaiah and Nethanel together as brothers. The Greek also expressly names sheep, while both preserve five thousand and five hundred.
Verse 35:10 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:10] The service was prepared. The priests stood at their stations and the Levites in their divisions, according to the king’s command.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:10] The ministry was set in order. The priests stood at their station and the Levites in their divisions, according to the king’s command.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The ordered service and the separate priestly and Levitical arrangements correspond.
Verse 35:11 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:11] They slaughtered the Passover offering, and the priests dashed the blood received from their hands while the Levites skinned the animals.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:11] They sacrificed the phasek, and the priests poured the blood from their hands while the Levites skinned the animals.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The Hebrew leaves blood implicit with the dashing verb; the Greek explicitly names blood and uses pouring. The Levites’ skinning work agrees.
Verse 35:12 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:12] They set aside the burnt offering to give portions according to the divisions of the ancestral houses of the people’s members, to present to YHWH as written in the Book of Moses; they did likewise with the cattle.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:12] They prepared the burnt offering to hand it to them according to the division by ancestral houses of the sons of the people, to bring it to the Lord as written in the Book of Moses; and so until morning.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The Hebrew closes by extending the procedure to cattle; the Greek closes with until morning. That time statement is retained rather than replaced by the Hebrew animal term.
Verse 35:13 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:13] They cooked the Passover offering with fire according to the ordinance. They cooked the holy offerings in pots, cauldrons, and pans and hurried them to all the people’s members.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:13] They roasted the phasek with fire according to the ruling, and boiled the holy things in bronze vessels and cauldrons. It went well, and they ran to all the sons of the people.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The Hebrew uses the broad cooking verb for both preparations and names three vessel types. The Greek distinguishes roasting from boiling, names two vessel types, adds that it went well, and describes the attendants running without an explicit food object.
Verse 35:14 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:14] Afterward they prepared for themselves and the priests, because the priests, Aaron’s sons, were offering up burnt offerings and fat until night. So the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, Aaron’s sons.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:14] After preparing for themselves and the priests—because the priests were offering the fat and burnt offerings until night—the Levites prepared for themselves and for their brothers, Aaron’s sons.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The Greek’s opening is a dependent phrase and its final recipients are their brothers, Aaron’s sons. The Hebrew names the priests as Aaron’s sons twice. Both preserve work continuing until night.
Verse 35:15 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:15] The singers, Asaph’s sons, were at their stations according to the command of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer, and the gatekeepers were at each gate. They did not have to leave their service, because their brothers the Levites prepared for them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:15] The psalm-singers, Asaph’s sons, were at their station according to the commands of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, the king’s prophets, together with the rulers and the gatekeepers at each gate. They did not have to move from the ministry of holy things, because their brothers the Levites prepared for them.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The Hebrew has the singular king’s seer after Jeduthun. The Greek has plural prophets, adds rulers to the serving groups, and explicitly calls the ministry one of holy things.
Verse 35:16 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:16] All YHWH’s service was prepared that day, to observe the Passover and offer burnt offerings on YHWH’s altar according to King Josiah’s command.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:16] All the Lord’s ministry was set in order and prepared that day, to observe the phasek and bring burnt offerings to the Lord’s altar according to King Josiah’s command.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: The Greek has two preparation verbs where the Hebrew has one; the observances and royal command correspond.
Verse 35:17 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:17] The children of Israel who were present observed the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:17] The sons of Israel who were present observed the phasek at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both preserve the Passover and the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread.
The unparalleled observance
Verse 35:18 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:18] No Passover like it had been observed in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of Israel’s kings had observed a Passover like the one Josiah observed with the priests, Levites, all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:18] No phasek like it had occurred in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of Israel’s kings had observed a phasek like the one Josiah observed with the priests, Levites, all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to the Lord
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The Greek adds to the Lord and continues into the date in the following verse. Both compare the observance with the entire period since Samuel.
Verse 35:19 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:19] This Passover was observed in the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:19] in the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The Greek gives the date as a continuation of the preceding verse; the Hebrew restates that this Passover was observed. The eighteenth year agrees.
Greek addition • Josiah’s reform and the rejection oracle
Verse 35:19a Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No corresponding unit in the selected Hebrew main text.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:19a] King Josiah burned the spirit-mediums, the spirit-knowers, the tharaphin, the idols, and the karasim that were in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, to establish the words of the law written in the book Hilkiah the priest had found in the Lord’s house.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: This entire Greek unit is absent from the Hebrew chapter. The direct objects include persons and cult objects; the burning verb is retained. Tharaphin and karasim preserve the Greek borrowed forms, whose exact referents require lexical review.
Verse 35:19b Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No corresponding unit in the selected Hebrew main text.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:19b] Before him there had been no one like him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart, all his soul, and all his strength according to all the law of Moses; after him no one like him arose.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The Greek adds this full commendation of Josiah. It has no corresponding Hebrew unit here.
Verse 35:19c Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No corresponding unit in the selected Hebrew main text.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:19c] Nevertheless the Lord did not turn from the wrath of His great anger, with which the Lord was angry against Judah over all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The Greek adds the continuation of divine anger despite the preceding commendation; Manasseh’s provocations are expressly its stated ground.
Verse 35:19d Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No corresponding unit in the selected Hebrew main text.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:19d] The Lord said, “I will indeed remove Judah from My presence, just as I removed Israel, and I have rejected the city I chose, Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’”
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The Greek adds the rejection oracle. Its future removal of Judah and completed rejection of the city are retained without flattening the verb forms.
The campaign and Josiah’s death
Verse 35:20 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:20] After all this, when Josiah had prepared the house, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to meet him.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:20] Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up against the king of the Assyrians at the River Euphrates, and King Josiah went to meet him.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The Hebrew links the event to sanctuary preparation and names Carchemish. The Greek omits that introduction and place-name, adds Pharaoh, and explicitly names the Assyrian king as the expedition’s object.
Verse 35:21 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:21] He sent messengers to him, saying, “What is there between me and you, king of Judah? I am not coming against you today, but against the house with which I am at war, and God has told me to hurry. Keep away from God, who is with me, so that He does not destroy you.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:21] He sent messengers to him, saying, “What is there between me and you, king of Judah? I have not come against you today to make war, and God has told me to hurry. Beware of God, who is with me, lest He destroy you.”
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The Hebrew includes an explicit alternative target, the house of my warfare; that clause is absent from the Greek. Both present the Egyptian king’s claim of divine instruction.
Verse 35:22 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:22] Josiah did not turn his face away from him, but disguised himself to fight him. He did not listen to Neco’s words from God’s mouth, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:22] Josiah did not turn his face away from him, but strengthened himself to fight him. He did not listen to Neco’s words through God’s mouth, and came to fight in the plain of Magedon.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The Hebrew says Josiah disguised himself; the Greek says he strengthened himself. Both expressly characterize Neco’s words as coming from God, not merely as his own unendorsed claim.
Verse 35:23 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:23] The archers shot at King Josiah, and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am badly wounded.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:23] The archers shot at King Josiah, and the king said to his servants, “Bring me out, for I am in great pain.”
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Both report the archers’ shot and evacuation request; the Hebrew describes grievous injury, the Greek severe suffering.
Verse 35:24 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:24] His servants took him from the chariot, placed him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem. He died and was buried in his fathers’ tombs. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:24] His servants brought him out of the chariot, put him into his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem. He died and was buried with his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah,
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Both preserve the two chariots, transport to Jerusalem, death, and mourning. The Hebrew expressly names the ancestral tombs; the Greek says with his fathers.
Verse 35:25 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:25] Jeremiah chanted a lament over Josiah. All the male and female singers speak of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made them an ordinance for Israel, and they are written among the laments.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:25] and Jeremiah lamented over Josiah. All the male and female rulers spoke a lament over Josiah to this day. They made it an ordinance for Israel, and it is written among the laments.
Classification & Notes
Disparate
Text: The Hebrew identifies male and female singers; the Greek identifies male and female rulers, changing the people assigned the lamenting role. The Hebrew also has their laments and a plural ordinance object, while the Greek has one lament.
Verse 35:26 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:26] The rest of Josiah’s deeds and his acts of kindness, according to what is written in YHWH’s law,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:26] Josiah’s deeds and his hope were written in the Lord’s law;
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The Hebrew speaks of kindnesses conforming to the law and continues its record notice into the next verse. The Greek has hope and directly says the deeds and hope were written in the law.
Verse 35:27 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 35:27] and his deeds, first and last, are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 35:27] and his deeds, first and last, are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both close with the royal record in the same Israel–Judah order.