16. So all the service of the Lord was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the Lord’s altar, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
17. The children of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
18. There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet, nor did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, with the priests, the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
19. This passover was kept in the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah.