1;  Josiah keeps a most solemn passover.
 20;  He provoking Pharaoh-necho, is slain at Megiddo.
 25;  Lamentations for Josiah.

 * Josiah.
   The whole solemnity was performed with great exactness
   according to the law, and upon that account there was none
   like it since Samuel's time; for even in Hezekiah's passover
   there were several irregularities.  Bp. Patrick observes, that
   in this also it exceeded the other passovers which preceding
   things had kept, that though Josiah was by no means so rich as
   David, or Solomon, or Jehoshaphat, yet he furnished the
   congregation with beasts for sacrifice, both paschal and
   eucharistical, at his own proper cost and charge, which was
   more than any king ever did before.

  30:1-27  2Ki 23:21-23 
 * the fourteenth.
  Ex 12:6  Nu 9:3  De 16:1-8  Ezr 6:19  Eze 45:21 
   Josiah's solemnization of the passover, which is merely
   alluded to at 2; Ki 23:21, is very particularly related her,
   while the destruction of idolatry is largely related in the
   Kings, and here only touched upon.  The feasts of the Lord
   God, appointed by the ceremonial law, were very numerous; but
   the passover was the chief.  It was the first which was
   solemnized in the night wherein Israel came out of Egypt, and
   ushered in those which were afterwards instituted:  and it was
   the last great feast which was held in the night wherein
   Christ was betrayed, before the vail of the temple was rent in
   twain.  Be means of this feast, both Josiah and Hezekiah
   revived religion in their day.