A meticulously supplied Passover involves all Israel present

King, princes, and temple rulers supply the animals from their own substance

Josiah gave to the people of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance. His princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests two thousand and six hundred small cattle and three hundred oxen. Conaniah, Shemaiah, Nethaneel, Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites five thousand small cattle and five hundred oxen.

Willing princely gifts sit beside royal substance. The scale is this book's. It functions theologically as well as historically and should not be turned into a contest with every other Passover.

Roasting, boiling, flaying, and gatekeeping run until night

The service was prepared: priests stood in their place, Levites in their courses according to the king's commandment. They killed the passover; the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them. They removed the burnt offerings to give according to the divisions of the families of the people, as written in the book of Moses, and so with the oxen. They roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance; but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, caldrons, and pans, and divided them speedily among all the people. Sod means boiled. Afterward the Levites made ready for themselves and for the priests, because the sons of Aaron were busied in offering burnt offerings and the fat until night. Singers the sons of Asaph were in their place according to David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun; porters waited at every gate and might not depart from their service, for their brethren the Levites prepared for them. So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day.

The children of Israel that were present kept the passover and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. There was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, with the priests, the Levites, all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, in the eighteenth year of Josiah. The superlative comparison does not demean other Passovers, erase animal and worker cost, or make spectacle the measure of faithful worship. Chronicles and Kings emphasize different aspects of this feast; both remain.