2Chronicles:23-24
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And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself ,
and took the captains of hundreds ,
Azariah the son of Jeroham ,
and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan ,
and Azariah the son of Obed ,
and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah ,
and Elishaphat the son of Zichri ,
into covenant with him .
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And they went about in Judah ,
and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah ,
and the chief of the fathers of Israel ,
and they came to Jerusalem .
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And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God .
And he said unto them ,
Behold ,
the king '
s son shall reign ,
as the LORD hath said of the sons of David .
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This is the thing that ye shall do ;
A third part of you entering on the sabbath ,
of the priests and of the Levites ,
shall be porters of the doors ;
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And a third part shall be at the king '
s house ;
and a third part at the gate of the foundation :
and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD .
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But let none come into the house of the LORD ,
save the priests ,
and they that minister of the Levites ;
they shall go in ,
for they are holy :
but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD .
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And the Levites shall compass the king round about ,
every man with his weapons in his hand ;
and whosoever else cometh into the house ,
he shall be put to death :
but be ye with the king when he cometh in ,
and when he goeth out .
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So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded ,
and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath ,
with them that were to go out on the sabbath :
for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses .
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Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears ,
and bucklers ,
and shields ,
that had been king David '
s ,
which were in the house of God .
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And he set all the people ,
every man having his weapon in his hand ,
from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple ,
along by the altar and the temple ,
by the king round about .
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Then they brought out the king '
s son ,
and put upon him the crown ,
and gave him the testimony ,
and made him king .
And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him ,
and said ,
God save the king .
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Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king ,
she came to the people into the house of the LORD :
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And she looked ,
and ,
behold ,
the king stood at his pillar at the entering in ,
and the princes and the trumpets by the king :
and all the people of the land rejoiced ,
and sounded with trumpets ,
also the singers with instruments of musick ,
and such as taught to sing praise .
Then Athaliah rent her clothes ,
and said ,
Treason ,
Treason .
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Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host ,
and said unto them ,
Have her forth of the ranges :
and whoso followeth her ,
let him be slain with the sword .
For the priest said ,
Slay her not in the house of the LORD .
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So they laid hands on her ;
and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king '
s house ,
they slew her there .
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And Jehoiada made a covenant between him ,
and between all the people ,
and between the king ,
that they should be the LORD '
S people .
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Then all the people went to the house of Baal ,
and brake it down ,
and brake his altars and his images in pieces ,
and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars .
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Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites ,
whom David had distributed in the house of the LORD ,
to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD ,
as it is written in the law of Moses ,
with rejoicing and with singing ,
as it was ordained by David .
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And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD ,
that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in .
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And he took the captains of hundreds ,
and the nobles ,
and the governors of the people ,
and all the people of the land ,
and brought down the king from the house of the LORD :
and they came through the high gate into the king '
s house ,
and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom .
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And all the people of the land rejoiced :
and the city was quiet ,
after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword .
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Joash was seven years old when he began to reign ,
and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem .
His mother '
s name also was Zibiah of Beersheba .
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And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest .
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And Jehoiada took for him two wives ;
and he begat sons and daughters .
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And it came to pass after this ,
that Joash was minded to repair the house of the LORD .
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And he gathered together the priests and the Levites ,
and said to them ,
Go out unto the cities of Judah ,
and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year ,
and see that ye hasten the matter .
Howbeit the Levites hastened it not .
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And the king called for Jehoiada the chief ,
and said unto him ,
Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection ,
according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD ,
and of the congregation of Israel ,
for the tabernacle of witness ?
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For the sons of Athaliah ,
that wicked woman ,
had broken up the house of God ;
and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim .
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And at the king '
s commandment they made a chest ,
and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD .
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And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem ,
to bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness .
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And all the princes and all the people rejoiced ,
and brought in ,
and cast into the chest ,
until they had made an end .
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Now it came to pass ,
that at what time the chest was brought unto the king '
s office by the hand of the Levites ,
and when they saw that there was much money ,
the king '
s scribe and the high priest '
s officer came and emptied the chest ,
and took it ,
and carried it to his place again .
Thus they did day by day ,
and gathered money in abundance .
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And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD ,
and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD ,
and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD .
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So the workmen wrought ,
and the work was perfected by them ,
and they set the house of God in his state ,
and strengthened it .
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And when they had finished it ,
they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada ,
whereof were made vessels for the house of the LORD ,
even vessels to minister ,
and to offer withal ,
and spoons ,
and vessels of gold and silver .
And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada .
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But Jehoiada waxed old ,
and was full of days when he died ;
an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died .
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And they buried him in the city of David among the kings ,
because he had done good in Israel ,
both toward God ,
and toward his house .
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Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah ,
and made obeisance to the king .
Then the king hearkened unto them .
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And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers ,
and served groves and idols :
and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass .
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Yet he sent prophets to them ,
to bring them again unto the LORD ;
and they testified against them :
but they would not give ear .
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And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest ,
which stood above the people ,
and said unto them ,
Thus saith God ,
Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD ,
that ye cannot prosper ?
because ye have forsaken the LORD ,
he hath also forsaken you .
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And they conspired against him ,
and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD .
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Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him ,
but slew his son .
And when he died ,
he said ,
The LORD look upon it ,
and require it .
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And it came to pass at the end of the year ,
that the host of Syria came up against him :
and they came to Judah and Jerusalem ,
and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people ,
and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus .
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For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men ,
and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand ,
because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers .
So they executed judgment against Joash .
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And when they were departed from him , (
for they left him in great diseases ,)
his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest ,
and slew him on his bed ,
and he died :
and they buried him in the city of David ,
but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings .
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And these are they that conspired against him ;
Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess ,
and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess .
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Now concerning his sons ,
and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him ,
and the repairing of the house of God ,
behold ,
they are written in the story of the book of the kings .
And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead .
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Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign ,
and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem .
And his mother '
s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem .
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