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the Kings Scribe (and one appoynted by the hie armie of Aram came with a small company of
Priest) came and emptied the chest, and tooke it, men, yet the Lord deliuered a very great armie
and caried it to his place againe: thus they did into their hand, because they had forsaken the
day by day, and gathered siluer in abundance. Lord God of their fathers: and they gaue sentence
12 And the King and Iehoiada gaue it to such against Ioash. 25 And when they were departed
as did the labour and worke in the house of from him, (for they left him in great diseases)
the Lord, and hyred masons and carpenters to his owne seruants conspired against him for the
repayre the house of the Lord: they gaue it also to blood of the children of Iehoiada the Priest, and
workers of yron and brasse, to repayre the house slewe him on his bed, and he dyed, and they
of the Lord. 13 So the workemen wrought, and buryed him in the citie of Dauid: but they buryed
the worke amended through their hands: and him not in the sepulchres of the Kings. 26 And
they restored the house of God to his state, and these are they that conspired against him, Zabad
strengthened it. 14 And when they had finished it, the sonne of Shimrath an Ammonitesse, and
they brought the rest of the siluer before the King Iehozabad the sonne of Shimrith a Moabitesse.
and Iehoiada, and he made thereof vessels for the 27 But his sonnes, and the summe of the taxe
house of the Lord, euen vessels to minister, both gathered by him, and the foundation of the house
morters and incense cuppes, and vessels of golde, of God, behold, they are written in the storie of
and of siluer: and they offred burnt offrings in the booke of the Kings. And Amaziah his sonne
the house of the Lord continually all the dayes of reigned in his steade.
Iehoiada. 15 But Iehoiada waxed olde, and was ful
of dayes and dyed. An hundreth and thirtie yeere 25
olde was he when he dyed. 16 And they buried 1 Amaziah was fiue and twentie yere old when
him in the citie of Dauid with the kings, because he began to reigne, and he reigned nine and
he had done good in Israel, and toward God and twentie yeere in Ierusalem: and his mothers
his house. 17 And after the death of Iehoiada, name was Iehoaddan, of Ierusalem. And he did
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came the princes of Iudah, and did reuerence vprightly in the eyes of the Lord, but not with
to the King, and the King hearkened vnto them. a perfite heart. 3 And when the kingdome was
18 And they left the house of the Lord God of established vnto him, he slewe his seruants, that
their fathers, and serued groues and idoles: and had slaine the King his father. 4 But he slewe
wrath came vpon Iudah and Ierusalem, because not their children, but did as it is written in the
of this their trespasse. 19 And God sent Prophets Lawe, and in the booke of Moses, where the Lord
amog the, to bring them againe vnto the Lord: commanded, saying, The fathers shall not dye for
and they made protestation among them, but the children, neyther shall the children die for
they would not heare. 20 And the Spirit of God the fathers, but euery man shall dye for his owne
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came vpon Zechariah the sonne of Iehoiada the sinne. And Amaziah assembled Iudah, and made
Priest, which stoode aboue the people, and sayde them captaines ouer thousandes, and captaines
vnto them, Thus sayth God, Why transgresse ouer hundreths, according to the houses of their
ye the commandements of the Lord? surely fathers, thorowout all Iudah and Beniamin: and
he nombred them from twentie yeere olde and
ye shall not prosper: because ye haue forsaken aboue, and founde among them three hundreth
the Lord, he also hath forsaken you. 21 Then
they conspired against him and stoned him with thousand chosen men, to goe foorth to the warre,
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stones at the commandement of the King, in the and to handle speare and shield. He hyred
court of the house of the Lord. 22 Thus Ioash also an hundreth thousand valiant men out of
Israel for an hundreth talents of siluer.
But a
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the King remembred not the kindnesse which man of God came to him, saying, O King, let not
Iehoiada his father had done to him, but slewe the armie of Israel goe with thee: for the Lord
his sonne. And when he dyed, he sayd, The Lord
looke vpon it, and require it. 23 And when the is not with Israel, neither with all the house of
If not, goe thou on, doe it, make thy
Ephraim.
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yeere was out, the host of Aram came vp against selfe strong to the battel, but God shall make thee
him, and they came against Iudah and Ierusalem, fall before the enemie: for God hath power to
and destroyed all the princes of the people from helpe, and to cast downe. 9 And Amaziah sayde
among the people, and sent all the spoyle of to the man of God, What shall we doe then for
them vnto the King of Damascus. 24 Though the the hundreth talents, which I haue giuen to the