and with singing, as it was ordained by David.
[19] And he set the porters at the gates of the house of
the LORD, 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 LORD: 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.
2Chr.24
[1] 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 LORD 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
LORD.
[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 LORD, 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 LORD 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 LORD.
[9] And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to
bring in to the LORD 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 LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the
house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.
[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 brought the rest of the money before the
king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of the LORD, 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 LORD 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 LORD 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 LORD; 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 LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, 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 LORD.
[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 LORD 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 LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had
forsaken the LORD 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