2Chronicles:24
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Joash was seven years old when he began to reign ,
and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem .
His mother '
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 to the cities of Judah ,
and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year ,
and see that you hasten the matter .
However ,
the Levites hastened it not .
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And the king called for Jehoiada the chief ,
and said to him ,
Why have you 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 on Baalim .
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And at the king '
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 on 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 to the king '
office by the hand of the Levites ,
and when they saw that there was much money ,
the king '
scribe and the high priest '
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 worked iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD .
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So the workmen worked ,
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 with ,
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 listened to 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 on Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass .
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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 give ear .
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And the Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest ,
which stood above the people ,
and said to them ,
Thus said God ,
Why transgress you the commandments of the LORD ,
that you cannot prosper ?
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 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 on 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 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 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 sepulchers 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 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 stead .