SUBJECT "Claiming the Treasure of the Past"Print: 2 Ch 35:1-6,16-19

Lesson 4 Sep. 22, 2024 Fall Qt. 2024 Unit l: Leaders Set Worship Example Dev. Reading: 2Ch 34:8,14-27 BG: 2 KI 22-23; 2Ch 34:1-35:19 Print: 2 Ch 35:1-6,16-19 Key Verse (2Ch 35;1, KJV) SUBJECT "Claiming the Treasure of the Past"

2 Chronicles 35:1 King James Version 35 Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the Lord in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Josiah celebrated the Passover to God in Jerusalem. They killed the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the first month. He gave the priests detailed instructions and encouraged them in the work of leading worship in The Temple of God. He also told the Levites who were in charge of teaching and guiding Israel in all matters of worship (they were especially consecrated for this), “Place the sacred Chest in The Temple that Solomon son of David, the king of Israel, built. You don’t have to carry it around on your shoulders any longer! Serve God and God’s people Israel. Organize yourselves by families for your respective responsibilities, following the instructions left by David king of Israel and Solomon his son.

Passover, in Judaism, holiday commemorating the Hebrews’ liberation from slavery in Egypt and the “passing over” of the forces of destruction, or the sparing of the firstborn of the Israelites, when the Lord “smote the land of Egypt”