2CH-24:1 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.
2CH-24:2 And Joash did [that which was] right in the sight of
the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
2CH-24:3 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons
and daughters.
2CH-24:4 And it came to pass after this, [that] Joash was minded
to repair the house of the LORD.
2CH-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 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.
2CH-24:6 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?
2CH-24:7 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.
2CH-24:8 And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and
set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD.
2CH-24:9 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.
2CH-24:10 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and
brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
2CH-24:11 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.
2CH-24:12 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.
2CH-24:13 So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by
them, and they set the house of God in his state, and
strengthened it.
2CH-24:14 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.
2CH-24:15 But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he
died; an hundred and thirty years old [was he] when he died.
2CH-24:16 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.
2CH-24:17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of
Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened
unto them.
2CH-24:18 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.
2CH-24:19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto
the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not
give ear.
2CH-24:20 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.
2CH-24:21 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.
2CH-24:22 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].
2CH-24:23 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.
2CH-24:24 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.
2CH-24:25 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.
2CH-24:26 And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad
the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of
Shimrith a Moabitess.
2CH-24:27 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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