2Chronicles:24
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Joash was seven years old when he became king ,
and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem .
His mother '
s name was Zibiah of Beersheba .
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Joash did what was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest .
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And Jehoiada took two wives for him ,
and he had sons and daughters .
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Now it happened after this that Joash set his heart on repairing the house of the LORD .
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Then he gathered the priests and the Levites ,
and said to them , "
Go out to the cities of Judah ,
and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year ,
and see that you do it quickly ."
However the Levites did not do it quickly .
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So the king called Jehoiada the chief priest ,
and said to him , "
Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and from Jerusalem the collection ,
according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD and of the assembly of Israel ,
for the tabernacle of witness ?"
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For the sons of Athaliah ,
that wicked woman ,
had broken into the house of God ,
and had also presented all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD to the Baals .
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Then at the king '
s command they made a chest ,
and set it outside at the gate of the house of the LORD .
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And they made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to bring to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant of God had imposed on Israel in the wilderness .
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Then all the leaders and all the people rejoiced ,
brought their contributions ,
and put them into the chest until all had given .
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So it was ,
at that time ,
when the chest was brought to the king '
s official by the hand of the Levites ,
and when they saw that there was much money ,
that the king '
s scribe and the high priest '
s officer came and emptied the chest ,
and took it and returned it to its place .
Thus they did day by day ,
and gathered money in abundance .
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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 those who worked in iron and bronze to restore the house of the LORD .
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So the workmen labored ,
and the work was completed by them ;
they restored the house of God to its original condition and reinforced it .
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When they had finished ,
they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada ;
they made from it articles for the house of the LORD ,
articles for serving and offering ,
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 grew old and was full of days ,
and he died ;
he was one 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 His house .
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Now after the death of Jehoiada the leaders of Judah came and bowed down to the king .
And the king listened to them .
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Therefore they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers ,
and served wooden images and idols ;
and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem because of their trespass .
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Yet He sent prophets to them ,
to bring them back to the LORD ;
and they testified against them ,
but they would not listen .
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Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest ,
who stood above the people ,
and said to them , "
Thus says God : "
Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD ,
so that you cannot prosper ?
Because you have forsaken the LORD ,
He also has forsaken you ."'
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So they conspired against him ,
and at the command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the LORD .
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Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him ,
but killed his son ;
and as he died ,
he said , "
The LORD look on it ,
and repay !"
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So it happened in the spring of the year that the army of Syria came up against him ;
and they came to Judah and Jerusalem ,
and destroyed all the leaders of the people from among the people ,
and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus .
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For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men ;
but the LORD delivered a very great army 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 had withdrawn from him (
for they left him severely wounded ),
his own servants conspired against him because of the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest ,
and killed him on his bed .
So 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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These are the ones who conspired against him :
Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess ,
and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess .
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Now concerning his sons ,
and the many oracles about him ,
and the repairing of the house of God ,
indeed they are written in the annals of the book of the kings .
Then Amaziah his son reigned in his place .