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Joash was
seven years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's
name also was Zibiah of Beersheba.
02 And Joash did that which was right in the
sight of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the
priest.
03 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he
begat sons and daughters.
04 And it came to pass after this, that Joash was
minded to repair the house of the Lord.
05 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.
06 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 collection, according to the
commandment of Moses the servant of the Lord, and
of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle
of witness?
07 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 upon Baalim.
08 And at the king's commandment they made a
chest, and set it without at the gate of the
house of the Lord.
09 And they made a proclamation through Judah and
Jerusalem, to bring in to the Lord the collection
that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in
the wilderness.
10 And all the princes and all the people
rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the
chest, until they had made an end.
11 Now it came to pass, that at what time 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.
12 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 wrought
iron and brass to mend the house of the Lord.
13 So the workmen wrought, and the work was
perfected by them, and they set the house of God
in his state, and strengthened it.
14 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 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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15 But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days
when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was
he when he died.
16 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.
17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the
princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king.
Then the king hearkened unto them.
18 And they left the house of the Lord God of
their fathers, and served groves and idols: and
wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this
their trespass.
19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them
again unto the Lord; and they testified against
them: but they would not give ear.
20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the
son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the
people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why
transgress ye the commandments of the Lord, that
ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the
Lord, he hath also forsaken you.
21 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.
22 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 upon it, and require it.
23 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 unto the
king of Damascus.
24 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.
25 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
sepulchres of the kings.
26 And these are they that conspired against him;
Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and
Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.
27 Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of
the burdens laid upon 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.
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