Moff 2 CHR Chapter 24

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24 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem for forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba. 2 Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Eternal all the days of Jehoiada the priest; 3 Jehoiada provided him with two wives, and he had sons and daughters.

4 Afterwards Joash planned to repair the temple of the Eternal. 5 So he summoned the priests and Levites, ordering them to go to the towns of Judah and collect from all Israel money enough to keep the temple of their God in repair year by year. “See that you make haste with your work,” he added. But the Levites did not make haste. 6 So the king summoned Jehoiada the priest and asked him why he had not insisted upon the Levites collecting for the Tent of the Presence, from Judah and Jerusalem, the tax fixed by Moses the servant of the Eternal, and by the community of Israel. 7 (For that iniquitous woman Athaliah and her priests had plundered the temple of the Eternal and bestowed on the Baals all the votive offerings in the temple of the Eternal.) 8 By order of the king, a box was then made and placed outside the entrance to the temple of the Eternal, 9 and proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem that the tax levied on Israel in the desert by Moses the servant of God was to be paid in to the Eternal. 10 The nobles and the nation all rejoiced; they paid the tax, throwing the money into the box till it was full. 11 Whenever the Levites brought the box for the royal inspection, and it was found that there was a large sum of money in it, the king’s secretary and the high-priest’s inspector emptied the box and had it replaced as before. This was done day after day; and plenty of money was gathered, 12 which the king and Jehoiada handed over to those who had charge of the Eternal’s temple; masons and joiners were hired to restore the temple of the Eternal, and also iron-workers and brass founders to repair the temple of the Eternal.

13 The workmen toiled till the repairs were completed, till they had restored the temple of God to its former state and stability. 14 When they had finished, the rest of the money was laid before the king and Jehoiada, who used it to make utensils for the temple of the Eternal, utensils for the service, pestles, saucers, and articles of gold and silver.

All the days of Jehoiada, there were burnt-offerings sacrificed constantly in the temple of the Eternal. 15 But Jehoiada became old and worn out; he died, and died at the age of a hundred and thirty. 16 They buried him among the kings in David’s burg, because he had done good service in Israel, good service to God and to his temple. 17 Then, after the death of Jehoiada, the nobles of Judah went with a petition to the king, by whose permission 18 They abandoned the temple of the Eternal the God of their fathers, and worshipped sacred poles and idols. God’s anger fell on Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs. 19 He sent them prophets to bring them back to the Eternal, prophets who warned them; but they would not listen to the prophets. 20 Zecharlah the son of Jehoiada the priest was inspired to stand above the people and deliver them this message from God: “Why break the commands of the Eternal? Why defeat yourselves? Because you have abandoned the Eternal, he has abandoned you.” 21 But they conspired against him and, by order of the king, stoned him to death in the court of the temple of the Eternal; 22 king Joash forgot the kindness done him by Jehoiada, and murdered Jehoiada’s son, who cried out as he died, “May the Eternal note this and punish it!”

23 A year later the Aramaean army attacked Joash; advancing on Judah and Jerusalem, they cut off all the nobles and sent their goods as plunder to the king of Damascus. 24 The Aramseans brought only a small force, and the Eternal put a large army into their hands, because they had abandoned the Eternal the God of their fathers. So did the Aramaeans inflict punishment upon Joash. 25 When they left--and they left him seriously wounded--his own officers conspired against him for having murdered the son of Jehoiada the priest; they killed him in bed, and he died and was buried in David’s burg, though not in the tombs of the kings. 26 (The conspirators were Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.) 27 All about his sons, and the grave warnings of the prophets to hi, and his restoration of the temple of God, will be found in the Midrash of the Book of the Kings.

Amaziah his son reigned instead of him.

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Moff 2 CHR Chapter 24

Moff 2 CHR Chapter 24