2Chr 24
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Joas was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem:
and his mother’s name was Sabia of Bersabee.
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And Joas did that which right in the sight of the Lord all the days of Jodae the priest.
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And Jodae took to himself two wives, and they bore sons and daughters.
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And it came to pass afterward that it came into the heart of Joas to repair the house
of the Lord.
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And he gathered the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out into the cities
of Juda, and collect money of all Israel to repair the house of the Lord from year
to year, and make haste to speak of it. But the Levites hasted not.
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And king Joas called Jodae the chief, and said to him, Why have you not looked after
the Levites, so that they should bring from Juda and Jerusalem that which was Gr. judged prescribed by Moses the man of God,
when he assembled Israel at the tabernacle of
witness?
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For Gotholia was a transgressor, and her sons tore down the house of God; for they
offered the holy things of the house of the Lord to Baalim.
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And the king said, Let a See Joh 12:6 box be made, and let it be put at the gate of the house of the Lord without.
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And let men proclaim in Juda and in Jerusalem, that the people should bring to the
Lord, as Moses the servant of God spoke concerning Israel in the wilderness.
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And all the princes and all the people gave, and brought in, and cast into the box
until it was filled.
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And it came to pass, when they brought in the box to the officers of the king by the
hand of the Levites, and when they saw that the money was more than sufficient, then
came the king’s scribe, and the officer of the high priest, and emptied the box, and
restored it to its place. Thus they did day by day, and collected much Gr. silver money.
12
And the king and Jodae the priest gave it to the workmen employed in the service of
the house of the Lord, and they hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of
the Lord, also smiths and braziers to repair the house of the Lord.
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And the workmen wrought, and the works prospered in their hands, and they established
the house of the Lord on its foundation, and strengthened it.
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And when they had finished it, they brought to the king and to Jodae the remainder
of the money, and they made vessels for the house of the Lord, vessels of service
for whole-burnt-offerings, and gold and silver censers: and they offered up whole-burnt-offerings
in the house of the Lord continually all the days of Jodae.
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And Jodae grew old, being full of days, and he died, being a hundred and thirty years
old at his death.
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And they buried him with the kings in the city of David, because he had dealt well
with Israel, and with God and his house.
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And it came to pass after the death of Jodae, that the princes of Juda went in, and
did obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened to them.
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And they forsook the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and served the Astartes
and idols: and there was anger upon Juda and Jerusalem in that day.
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yet he sent prophets to them, to turn them to the Lord; but they hearkened not: and
he testified to them, but they obeyed not.
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And the Spirit of God Gr. clothed came upon Azarias the son of Jodae the priest, and he stood up above the people,
and said, Thus says the Lord, Why do you transgress the commandments of the Lord?
so shall you not prosper; for you have forsaken the Lord, and he will forsake you.
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And they conspired against him, and stone him by command of king Joas in the court
of the Lord’s house.
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So Joas remembered not the Gr. mercy kindness which his father Jodae had exercised towards him, but slew his son. And
as he died, he said, The Lord look upon it, and judge.
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And it came to pass after the end of the year, that the host of Syria went up against
him, and came against Juda and Jerusalem: and they slew all the chiefs of the people
among the people, and all their spoils they sent to the king of Damascus.
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For the army of Syria came with few men, yet God gave into their hands a very large
army, because they had forsaken the God of their fathers; and he Gr. wrought brought judgements on Joas.
25
And after they had departed from him, when they had left him in sore diseases, then
his servants conspired against him Gr. in because of the blood of the son of Jodae 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
sepulcher of the kings.
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And they that conspired against him were Zabed the son of Samaath the Ammanite, and
Jozabed the son of Samareth the Moabite.
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And all his sons, and the five came to him: and the other matters, behold, they are
written in the book of the kings. And Amasias his son reigned in his stead.