geneva 2Chronicles:24:1-16
geneva@2Chronicles:24:1 @ Ioash was seuen yere olde, when he began to reigne, & he reigned fourty yeere in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
geneva@2Chronicles:24:2 @ And Joash did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD all the days of (note:)Who was a faithful counsellor and governed him by the word of God.(:note) Jehoiada the priest.
geneva@2Chronicles:24:3 @ And Iehoiada tooke him two wiues, and he begate sonnes and daughters.
geneva@2Chronicles:24:4 @ And afterward it came into Ioash mind, to renew the house of the Lord.
geneva@2Chronicles:24:5 @ And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all (note:)He does not mean the ten tribes but only the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin.(:note) 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.
geneva@2Chronicles:24:6 @ And the king called for Jehoiada the (note:)For he was the high priest.(:note) 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?
geneva@2Chronicles:24:7 @ For the sons of Athaliah, that (note:)The scriptures call her wicked because she was a cruel murderer and a blasphemous idolater.(:note) 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.
geneva@2Chronicles:24:8 @ Therefore the King commaunded, and they made a chest, and set it at the gate of the house of the Lord without.
geneva@2Chronicles:24:9 @ 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.
geneva@2Chronicles:24:10 @ And all the princes and all the people reioyced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, vntill they had finished.
geneva@2Chronicles:24:11 @ Now it came to pass, that at what time (note:)Such as were faithful men whom the king had appointed for that matter.(:note) 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.
geneva@2Chronicles:24:12 @ And the king and (note:)Signifying that this was done by advise and counsel and not by any one man's desire.(:note) 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.
geneva@2Chronicles:24:13 @ So the workemen wrought, and the worke amended through their hands: & they restored the house of God to his state, & strengthened it.
geneva@2Chronicles:24:14 @ And when they had finished [it], they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made (note:)For the wicked kings, his predecessors and Athaliah had destroyed the vessels of the temple, or turned them to the use of their idols.(:note) 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.
geneva@2Chronicles:24:15 @ But Iehoiada waxed olde, and was ful of dayes and dyed. An hundreth and thirtie yeere olde was he when he dyed.
geneva@2Chronicles:24:16 @ And they buried him in the city of David among the (note:)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.(:note) kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house.
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