2Chronicles:23-24
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And in the seventh year Jehoiada made himself strong .
And he took the commanders 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 to them ,
Behold ,
the king '
s son shall reign ,
as the LORD has said of the sons of David .
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This [
is ]
the thing that you shall do .
A third part of you entering on the sabbath ,
of the priests and of the Levites , [
shall be ]
keepers of the doors .
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And a third part [
shall be ]
at the king '
s house .
And a third part shall be 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 except the priests ,
and those of the Levites who minister .
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 surround the king ,
each man with his weapons in his hand .
And whoever comes into the house ,
he shall be put to death .
But you be with the king when he comes in and when he goes out .
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And the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded .
And every man took his men who were to come in on the sabbath ,
with the ones who were to go [
out ]
on the sabbath .
For Jehoiada the priest did not dismiss the divisions .
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And Jehoiada the priest delivered to the commanders of hundreds king David '
s spears and bucklers and shields ,
which [
were ]
in the house of God .
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And he set all the people ,
each 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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And they brought out the king '
s son and put the crown on him ,
and [
gave him ]
the testimony ,
and made him king .
And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him and said ,
Let the king live !
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And Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king ,
and 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 entrance ,
and the rulers and the trumpets by the king .
And all the people of the land [
were ]
rejoicing and sounding with trumpets ,
and the singers with instruments of music ,
and giving signals to praise .
And Athaliah tore her clothes and cried ,
Treason !
Treason !
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And Jehoiada the priest brought out the commanders of hundreds who were set over the army ,
and said to them ,
Take her out of the ranks .
And whoever follows her shall be killed with the sword .
For the priest said ,
Do not kill her [
in the house of the LORD .
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And they laid hands on her ;
and she came to the entrance of the Gate of the Horses ,
beside the king '
s house ,
and they executed 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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And all the people went to the house of Baal and broke it down ,
and smashed his altars and his images .
And they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars .
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And Jehoiada chose the officers 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 joy and with singing ,
by the hands of David .
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And he set the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD ,
so that the unclean in any way could not go in .
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And he took the commanders of hundreds ,
and the nobles ,
and the governors of the people ,
and all the people of the land ,
and brought the king down from the house of the LORD .
And they came through the Upper Gate into the king '
s house ,
and set the king on the throne of the kingdom .
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And all the people of the land rejoiced .
And the city was quiet after they had killed 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 Beer-sheba .
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And Joash did the right in the eyes of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest .
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And Jehoiada took two wives for him ,
and he fathered sons and daughters
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And it happened after this ,
it had been in the mind of Joash 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 to the cities of Judah ,
and gather silver from all Israel to repair the house of your God from year to year .
And see that you hasten the matter .
And the Levites did not hasten [
it ].
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And the king called for Jehoiada and said to him ,
Why have you not made the Levites bring in the collection out of Judah and out of Jerusalem ,
according to 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 ,
have broken up the house of God .
And also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD they have given to Baals .
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And the king commanded ,
and they made a chest ,
and set it outside at the gate of the house of the LORD .
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And they gave a call in Judah and in Jerusalem ,
to bring in to the LORD the collection [
that ]
Moses the servant of God [
laid ]
on Israel in the wilderness .
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And all the rulers and all the people rejoiced ,
and brought in ,
and threw into the chests until [
it was ]
finished .
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And it happened at the time the chest was brought into the king '
s office by the Levites ,
and when they saw that the silver [
was ]
abundant ,
the king '
s scribe and the high priest '
s officer came and emptied the chest ,
and took it and carried it to its place again .
So they did day by day ,
and gathered a great amount of silver .
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And the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of the house of the LORD .
And they hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD ,
and also artisans in iron and bronze ,
to mend the house of the LORD .
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And the workmen worked ,
and the work was completed by them ,
and they set the house of God in its proper state and made it strong .
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And when they had finished ,
they brought the rest of the silver before the king and Jehoiada .
Of this silver were made vessels for the house of the LORD ,
vessels to minister and to offer ,
and spoons ,
and vessels of gold and silver .
And they continually offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada .
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But Jehoiada became old ,
and was full of days when he died .
He [
was ]
a hundred and thirty years old 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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And after the death of Jehoiada the rulers of Judah came and bowed down to the king .
And the king listened to them .
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And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers ,
and served Asherahs and idols .
And wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guilt .
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Yet He sent prophets to them to bring them again to the LORD .
And they testified against them .
But they would not listen .
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And the Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest ,
who stood above the people and said to them ,
So says God ,
Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD so that you cannot be blessed ?
Because you have forsaken the LORD ,
He has also forsaken you .
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And they conspired against him and stoned him [
with ]
stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of the LORD .
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And Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him ,
but killed his son .
And when he died ,
he said ,
The LORD will seek [
you out ].
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And it happened at the end of the year the army of Syria came up against him .
And they came to Judah and Jerusalem ,
and destroyed all the rulers of the people from among the people ,
and sent all the plunder of them to 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 army into their hand ,
because they had forsaken the God of the fathers .
And they executed judgment against Joash .
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And when they had 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 killed him on his bed ,
and he died .
And they buried him in the city of David ,
but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings .
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And these are the ones who conspired against him Zabad the son of Shimeath of Ammon ,
and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess .
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And [
as to ]
his sons ,
and the greatness of the burdens on 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 place .
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Amaziah [
was ]
twenty-five years old when he began to reign ,
and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem .
And his mother '
s name [
was ]
Jehoaddan of Jerusalem .