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brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal
before the altars.
18
Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the L
ORD
by the hand of
the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the L
ORD
, to offer the burnt
offerings of the L
ORD
, as
it is
written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing,
as it
was ordained
by David.
19
And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the L
ORD
, that none
which was
unclean in any thing should enter in.
20
And he took the captains of hundreds, and the
nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king
from the house of the L
ORD
: and they came through the high gate into the king’s house, and set the
king upon the throne of the kingdom.
21
And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was
quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.
CHAPTER CHRONICLES 24
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 Beer-sheba.
2
And Joash did
that which was
right in the sight of
the L
ORD
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 L
ORD
.
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 L
ORD
, 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 L
ORD
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 L
ORD
.
9
And they made a proclamation through Judah and
Jerusalem, to bring in to the L
ORD
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 L
ORD
, and hired
masons and carpenters to repair the house of the L
ORD
, and also such as wrought iron and brass to
mend the house of the L
ORD
.
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
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