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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.
2 And Joash did that which was
right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
3 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and
he begat sons and daughters.
4 And it came to pass after this, that
Joash was minded to repair the house of the LORD.
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.
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?
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.
8 And at the king’s commandment they
made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD.
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.
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.
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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