¹¹ Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

⁸ It is the Lord ^(A)who goes before you. He will be with you; ^(B)he will not leave you or forsake you. ^(C)Do not fear or be dismayed.”

Josiah Keeps the Passover

35 ^(A)Josiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem. And they slaughtered the Passover lamb ^(B)on the fourteenth day of the first month. ² He appointed the priests to their offices ^(C)and encouraged them in the service of the house of the Lord.