These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Chronicles 24
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Joash was seven years old when he began to reign; and he reigned forty years in ; and his mother’s was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
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- 2 And Joash did that which was right in the eyes of all the days of Jehoiada the .
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And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begot sons and daughters.
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- 4 And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to restore the house of .
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And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them: ‘Go out unto the cities of , and gather of all money to repair the house of your from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter.’ Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.
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And the called for Jehoiada the chief, and unto him: ‘Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of and out of the tax of the of , and of the congregation of , for the tent of the ?’
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- 7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of ; and also all the hallowed things of the house of did they bestow upon the Baalim.
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So the commanded, and they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of .
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And they made a proclamation through and , to bring in for the tax that the of laid upon 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 back to its place. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
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And the and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of ; and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of , and also such as wrought iron and brass to repair the house of .
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So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set up the house of 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 and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of , even vessels wherewith to minister, and buckets, and pans, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt-offerings in the house of 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 among the kings, because he had done good in , and toward and His house.
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- 17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of , and prostrated themselves before the . Then the hearkened unto them.
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And they forsook the house of , the of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols; and wrath came upon and for this their guiltiness.
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2 Chronicles 19:2 Joshua 22:20 2 Chronicles 24:4 2 Chronicles 32:25 1 Kings 14:23 2 Chronicles 29:8 2 Chronicles 28:13 2 Chronicles 21:13 Hosea 5:10-11 Exodus 34:13 2 Chronicles 33:3-7 1 Kings 14:9 1 Kings 11:4-5 Zephaniah 1:4-6 Judges 5:8 Hosea 5:14 2 Chronicles 36:14-16 2 Samuel 24:1 Ephesians 5:6 - 19 Yet He sent prophets to them, to bring them back unto ; and they admonished them, but they would not give ear.
- 20 And the of clothed the son of Jehoiada the ; and he stood above the people, and said unto them: ‘Thus saith : Why transgress ye the commandments of , that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken , He hath also forsaken you.’
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And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the of the in the court of the house of .
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- 22 Thus Joash the remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said: ‘The look upon it, and require it.’
- 23 And it came to pass, when the year was come about, that the army of the Arameans came up against him; and they came to and , and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the of .
- 24 For the army of the Arameans came with a small company of men; and delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken , the of their fathers. So they executed judgment upon Joash.
- 25 And when they were departed from him—for they left him in great diseases—his own servants conspired against him for the of the sons of Jehoiada the , and slew him on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of , but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
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And these are they that conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.
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- 27 Now concerning his sons, and the multitude of the burdens against him, and the rebuilding of the house of , behold, they are written in the commentary of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.