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2 Chronicles 24:1 (NKJV)

Joash Repairs the Temple

1. Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 24:2 (ERV)
And Joash did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

 

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2 Chronicles 24:3 (NIV)

the whole assembly made a covenant with the king at the temple of God.
Jehoiada said to them, “The king’s son shall reign, as the Lord promised concerning the descendants of David.

 

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2 Chronicles 24:4 (NIV)

Now this is what you are to do: A third of you priests and Levites who are going on duty on the Sabbath are to keep watch at the doors,

 

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2 Chronicles 24:5 (King James 2000 Bible)
And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that you hasten the matter. But the Levites hastened it not.

 

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2 Chronicles 24:6 (KJV)
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?

 

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2 Chronicles 24:7 (HCSB)
For the sons of that wicked Athaliah broke into the LORD's temple and even used the sacred things of the LORD's temple for the Baals."

 

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2 Chronicles 24:3 (NIV)

the whole assembly made a covenant with the king at the temple of God.
Jehoiada said to them, “The king’s son shall reign, as the Lord promised concerning the descendants of David.

2 Chronicles 24:4 (NIV)

Now this is what you are to do: A third of you priests and Levites who are going on duty on the Sabbath are to keep watch at the doors,

Should be.......

2 Chronicles 24:3-4
Jehoiada chose two wives for him, and he had sons and daughters.
4Some time later Joash decided to restore the temple of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 24:8 (NIV)
At the king's command, a chest was made and placed outside, at the gate of the temple of the LORD.

 

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2 Chronicles 24:9 (ESV)

And proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to bring in for the Lord the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness.

 

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2 Chronicles 24:10 (ESV)

And all the princes and all the people rejoiced and brought their tax and dropped it into the chest until they had finished.

 

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2 Chronicles 24:11 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
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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2 Chronicles 24:12 (ESV)

And the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who had charge of the work of the house of the Lord, and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of the Lord, and also workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of the Lord.

 

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2 Chronicles 24:13 (ESV)

So those who were engaged in the work labored, and the repairing went forward in their hands, and they restored the house of God to its proper condition and strengthened it.

 

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2 Chronicles 24:14 (King James 2000 Bible)
And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, of which were made articles for the house of the LORD, even articles for ministering, and for offering, 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.

 

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2 Chronicles 24:15 (ESV)

But Jehoiada grew old and full of days, and died. He was 130 years old at his death.

 

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2 Chronicles 24:16 (ESV)

And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Chronicles 24:17 (ESV)

Now after the death of Jehoiada the princes of Judah came and paid homage to the king. Then the king listened to them.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Chronicles 24:18 (ESV)

And they abandoned the house of the Lord, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 24:19 (KJV)
Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

 

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2 Chronicles 24:20 (ESV)

Joash's Treachery

20. Then the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people, and said to them, “Thus says God, ‘Why do you break the commandments of the Lord, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the Lord, he has forsaken you.’”