2Chronicles:24:1-16
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Joash was seven years old when he began to reign ;
and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem :
and his mother '
s name was Zibiah ,
of Beer-sheba .
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And Joash did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah 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 restore the house of Jehovah .
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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 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 chief ,
and said unto him ,
Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the tax of Moses the servant of Jehovah ,
and of the assembly of Israel ,
for the tent of the testimony ?
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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 Jehovah did they bestow upon the Baalim .
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So the king commanded ,
and they made a chest ,
and set it without at the gate of the house of Jehovah .
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And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem ,
to bring in for Jehovah the tax that Moses the servant of God laid upon 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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And it was so ,
that ,
at what time the chest was brought unto the king '
s officers by the hand of the Levites ,
and when they saw that there was much money ,
the king '
s scribe and the chief priest '
s officer came and emptied the chest ,
and took it ,
and carried it to its 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 Jehovah ;
and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of Jehovah ,
and also such as wrought iron and brass to repair the house of Jehovah .
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So the workmen wrought ,
and the work of repairing went forward in their hands ,
and they set up the house of God in its state ,
and strengthened it .
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And when they had made an end ,
they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada ,
whereof were made vessels for the house of Jehovah ,
even vessels wherewith to minister and to offer ,
and spoons ,
and vessels of gold and silver .
And they offered burnt-offerings in the house of Jehovah continually all the days of Jehoiada .
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But Jehoiada waxed old and was full of days ,
and he died ;
a 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 ,
and toward God and his house .
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