In King Yoshiahu's Pesach celebration (famous among diaspora Jews from the haftara of the second day of Pesach and among Israeli Jews because they know Nach), a good many animals were slaughtered. Specifically, sheep and goats were slaughtered as pesach offerings and cattle as chagiga offerings (Targum and Rashi, inter alia, to Ⅱ Divre Hayamim 35:7). Divre Hayamim (Ⅱ, 35:7–9) lists how many:

Yoshiahu designated for the [general] populace sheep and goats, all of which were for pesach offerings for those present, to the count of thirty thousand, and three thousand heads of cattle; these were from the king's wealth.

And his officers donated to the populace, namely^[1] to the kohanim and l'viyim. Chilkiya, Z'charya, and Y'chiel, dignitaries of the Temple, gave the kohanim 2600 animals for the pesach offerings and 300 heads of cattle. And Chananyahu, Sh'ma'yahu, his brother N'san'el, Chashavyahu, Y'iel, and Yozavad, officers of the l'viyim, designated 5000 pesach animals and 500 heads of cattle for the l'viyim.

The general populace and the l'viyim got ten times as many pesach animals as chagiga animals whereas the kohanim got less than nine times as many. Why the difference?

^{1. M'tzudas David and (FWIW) Perush Ivri-Teitsch}

In King Yoshiahu's Pesach celebration (famous among diaspora Jews from the haftara of the second day of Pesach and among Israeli Jews because they know Nach), a good many animals were slaughtered. Specifically, sheep and goats were slaughtered as pesach offerings and cattle as chagiga offerings^[1]. Divre Hayamim (Ⅱ, 35:7–9) lists how many:

Yoshiahu designated for the [general] populace sheep and goats, all of which were for pesach offerings for those present, to the count of thirty thousand, and three thousand heads of cattle; these were from the king's wealth.

And his officers donated to the populace, namely^[2] to the kohanim and l'viyim. Chilkiya, Z'charya, and Y'chiel, dignitaries of the Temple, gave the kohanim 2600 animals for the pesach offerings and 300 heads of cattle. And Chananyahu, Sh'ma'yahu, his brother N'san'el, Chashavyahu, Y'iel, and Yozavad, officers of the l'viyim, designated 5000 pesach animals and 500 heads of cattle for the l'viyim.

The general populace and the l'viyim got ten times as many pesach animals as chagiga animals whereas the kohanim got less than nine times as many. Why the difference?

<sup>1. Targum and Rashi, inter alia, to 35:7
2. M'tzudas David and Perush Ivri-Teitsch</sup>