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brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the
house of the L
ORD
,
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 L
ORD
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 L
ORD
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 L
ORD
; 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 L
ORD
, that ye
cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the L
ORD
, 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 L
ORD
.
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 L
ORD
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 L
ORD
delivered a very great host into their hand, because
they had forsaken the L
ORD
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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Amaziah
was
twenty and five years old
when
he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine
years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name
was
Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
2
And he did
that which
was
right in the sight of the L
ORD
, but not with a perfect heart.
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