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Ioash was seuen yere olde ,
when he began to reigne , &
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he reigned fourty yeere in Ierusalem :
and his mothers name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba .
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And Joash did [
that which was ]
right in the sight of the LORD all the days of (
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Who was a faithful counsellor and governed him by the word of God .(:
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Jehoiada the priest .
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And Iehoiada tooke him two wiues ,
and he begate sonnes and daughters .
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And afterward it came into Ioash mind ,
to renew 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 (
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He does not mean the ten tribes but only the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin .(:
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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 (
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For he was the high priest .(:
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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 (
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The scriptures call her wicked because she was a cruel murderer and a blasphemous idolater .(:
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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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Therefore the King commaunded ,
and they made a chest ,
and set it at the gate of the house of the Lord without .
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And they made proclamation thorow Iudah and Ierusalem ,
to bring vnto the Lord the taxe of Moses the seruant of God ,
layde vpon Israel in the wildernesse .
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And all the princes and all the people reioyced ,
and brought in ,
and cast into the chest ,
vntill they had finished .
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Now it came to pass ,
that at what time (
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Such as were faithful men whom the king had appointed for that matter .(:
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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 (
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Signifying that this was done by advise and counsel and not by any one man '
s desire .(:
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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 workemen wrought ,
and the worke amended through their hands : &
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they restored the house of God to his state , &
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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 (
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For the wicked kings ,
his predecessors and Athaliah had destroyed the vessels of the temple ,
or turned them to the use of their idols .(:
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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 Iehoiada waxed olde ,
and was ful of dayes and dyed .
An hundreth and thirtie yeere olde was he when he dyed .
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And they buried him in the city of David among the (
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Signifying that they could not honour him too much ,
who had so excellently served in the work of the Lord ,
and in the affairs of the commonwealth .(:
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kings ,
because he had done good in Israel ,
both toward God ,
and toward his house .