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In the next posts, I will enter the entire apocrypha contained in my 1560 Geneva. I will, where possible, render the Old English modern.
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These books that follow in order after the Prophets unto the New Testament, are called Apocrypha, that is books, which were no received by a common consent to be read and expounded publicly in the church, neither yet served to prove any point of Christian religion, except in as much as they had the consent of the other Scriptures called Canonical to confirm the same, or rather whereon they were grounded: but as books proceeding from godly men, were received to be read for the advancement and furtherance of the knowledge of the history, and for the instruction of godly manners: which books declare that at all times God had a special care of his Church and left them not utterly destitute of teachers and means to confirm them in the hope of the promised Messiah, and also witness that those calamities that God sent to his Church, were according to his providence, who had both so threatened by his Prophets, and so brought it to pass for the destruction of their enemies, and for the trial of his children.
1 Esdras
3. Josias appointed Priests, and kept the Passover. 7 Offerings for the Priests and the people. 11 The order of the Levites. 23 The upright life of Josias. 25 His death and the occasion thereof, and the lamentation for him. 34 Joachaz appointed King. 53 the destruction of Jerusalem.
CHAP 1
AND Josia kept the Passover to his Lord in Jerusalem, and offered the Passover, in the fourteenth day of the first month,
And appointed the Priests in order according to their daily courses, being clothed with long garments in the Temple of the Lord.
And he spoke to the Levites the holy ministers of Israel, that they should sanctify themselves to the Lord in the House, which Salomon the son of King David had built,
And said, Ye shall no more bear the the Ark upon your shoulders: now therefore serve the Lord your God, and take the charge of his people of Israel, and prepare according to your families and tribes,
After the writing of David King of Israel, and according to the majesty of Salomon his son, and stand in the Temple (according to the order of the dignity of your fathers the Levites) which were appointed before your brethren the children of Israel.
Offer in order the Passover, and make ready the sacrifices of your brethren, and keep the Passover after the Lord’s commandment given to Moses.
And Josias gave to the people that was present, thirty thousand lambs and kids with three thousand calves.
These were given of the King’s possessions according to the promise, to the people, and to the Priests, and to the Levites. Then gave Helkias and Zacharias and Syelus the governors of the Temple, to the Priests for the Passover two thousand sheep, and three hundred calves.
And when these things were done, the Priests and the Levites stood in order, having unleavened bread according to their tribes,
And after the order of the dignity of their fathers, before the people to offer to the Lord, as it is written in the books of Moses: and thus they did in the morning.
And they roasted the Passover with fire as appertained, and they sod their offerings with perfumes in cauldrons and pots,
And set it before all them that were of the people, and afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the Priests their brethren the sons of Aaron.
For the Priests offered the fat unto the evening, and the Levites did make ready for themselves, and for the Priests their brethren the sons of Aaron.
And the holy singers, the sons of Asaph, were in their orders, according to the appointed ordinances of David, to wit, Asaph, and Azarias, and Eddimus, which was of the Kings appointment.
And the porters were at every gate, so that it was not lawful, that any should pass his ordinary watch: for their brethren the Levites made ready for them.
And in that day those things were appertained to the sacrifice of the Lord, were accomplished, that they might offer the Passover,
And offer sacrifices upon the altar of the Lord, according to the commandment of King Josias.
So the children of Israel, which were present at that time, kept the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
And there was not such a Passover kept in Israel since the time of Samuel the Prophet.
And all the Kings of Israel did not offer such a Passover, as did Josias, and the Priests, and the Levites, and the Jews, and all Israel, which were found to remain in Jerusalem.
In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias was this Passover kept.
The works of Josias were upright before his Lord with a heart full of godliness.
And concerning the things which came to pass in his time, they are written before, to wit, of those that sinned and did wickedly against the Lord above every nation and kingdom, and grieved him with sensible things, so that the words of the Lord stood up against Israel.
Now after all these acts of Josias it came to pass that when Pharoah King of Egypt came to move war at Carchamis upon Euphrates, Josias went out against him.
But the King of Egypt sent to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, o King of Judea?
I am not sent of the Lord God against thee: but my war is upon Euphrates, and now the Lord is with me, and the Lord hastens me forward: depart from me, and be not against the Lord.
But Josias would not turn back his chariot from him, but prepared himself to fight with him, not regarding the words of Jeremias the Prophet by the mouth of the Lord.
But he set himself in battle array against him in the field of Megeddo, and the princes came down to King Josias.
And the King said to his servants, Convey me out of the battle, for I am very weak. And by and by his servants brought him out of the battle.
So he got up on his second chariot, and being come again to Jerusalem he changed his life, and was buried in his father’s grave.
And in all Judea was Josias bewailed, yea, Jeremias the Prophet did lament for Josias, and the governors and their wives did lament him unto this day: and this was ordained in all the kindred of Israel to be done continually.
But these things are written in the book of the stories of the Kings of Judea, and every one of the acts that Josias did, and his glory, and his knowledge in the law of the Lord, and the things which he did before, and the things now referred are registered in the book of the Kings of Israel and Judea.
Then they of the nation took Joathaz the son of Josias, and made him King in steed of his father Josias, when he was three and twenty years old.
And he reigned in Judea and in Jerusalem three months: for the King of Egypt deposed him from reigning in Jerusalem.
He taxed also the people of an hundred talents of silver, and one talent of gold.
And the King of Egypt made Joacim his brother King of Judea and Jersualem.
And he bound Joachaz and his governors: but when he had taken Zaraces his brother, he did evil in the sight of the Lord.
Wherefore against him came up Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon, who when he had bound him with a chain of brass, led him away into Babylon.
Then Nebuchadnezzar took of the holy vessels of the Lord, and carried them away, and set them in his temple at Babylon. But his acts, and his profanation, and his reproach are written in the Chronicles of the Kings.
And Joacim his son reigned for him: and when he was made King, he was eighteen years old.
And he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.
And he made Sedecias King of Judea and Jerusalem when he was one and twenty years old, and he reigned eleven years.
And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, neither did he fear the words spoken by Jeremias the Prophet from the mouth of the Lord.
For after that he was sworn to King Nebuchadnezzar, he forswore himself by the Name of the Lord and fell away, and hardened his neck and his heart, and transgressed the Laws of the Lord God of Israel.
Also the governors of the people, and the Priests committed many things against the laws and passed all the pollutions of all the nations, and polluted the Temple of the Lord, which was sanctified in Jerusalem.
Nevertheless the God of their Fathers sent his messenger to call them back, because he spared them and his own Tabernacle.
But they derided his messengers, and in the day, that the Lord spake unto them, they mocked his Prophets,
So that he, being moved to anger against his people for their great wickedness, commanded the Kings of the Chaldeans to invade them.
These killed their young men with the sword round about their holy Temple, neither did they spare young men, nor maiden, neither old men, nor children among them.
But he delivered them all into their hands, and all the holy vessels of the Lord, both great and small with the vessels of the Ark of God: and they took, and carried away the Kings treasures into Babylon.
And they set fire in the House of the Lord and broke down the walls of Jerusalem and burnt their towers with fire.
They consumed also all the precious things thereof, and brought them to nothing, and those that were left by the sword, he carried away into Babylon.
And they were servants to him, and to his children til the Persians reigned, to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias,
And that the land might enjoy her Sabbaths all the time, that it was desolate, til seventy years were accomplished.
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