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him, gave him the Testimony, and made him rejoiced; and the city was quiet, for they had
king. Then Jehoiada and his sons anointed slain Athaliah with the sword.
him, and said, “Long live the king!” Joash was seven years old when he
12 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the 24 became king, and he reigned forty
people running and praising the king, she years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was
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came to the people in the temple of the LORD. Zibiah of Beersheba. Joash did what was right
13 When she looked, there was the king standing in the sight of the LORD all the days of
by his pillar at the entrance; and the leaders Jehoiada the priest. And Jehoiada took two
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and the trumpeters were by the king. All the wives for him, and he had sons and daughters.
people of the land were rejoicing and blowing 4 Now it happened after this that Joash set
trumpets, also the singers with musical instru- his heart on repairing the house of the LORD.
ments, and those who led in praise. So Athaliah 5 Then he gathered the priests and the Levites,
tore her clothes and said, “Treason! Treason!” and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Ju-
14 And Jehoiada the priest brought out the dah, and gather from all Israel money to repair
captains of hundreds who were set over the the house of your God from year to year, and
army, and said to them, “Take her outside see that you do it quickly.”
under guard, and slay with the sword whoever However the Levites did not do it quickly.
follows her.” For the priest had said, “Do not 6 So the king called Jehoiada the chief priest,
kill her in the house of the LORD.” and said to him, “Why have you not required
15 So they seized her; and she went by way of the Levites to bring in from Judah and from Je-
the entrance of the Horse Gate into the king’s rusalem the collection, according to the com-
house, and they killed her there. mandment of Moses the servant of the LORD
16 Then Jehoiada made a covenant between and of the assembly of Israel, for the taberna-
himself, the people, and the king, that they cle of witness?” For the sons of Athaliah, that
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should be the LORD’s people. And all the peo- wicked woman, had broken into the house of
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ple went to the temple of Baal, and tore it God, and had also presented all the dedicated
things of the house of the LORD to the Baals.
8 Then at the king’s command they made a
chest, and set it outside at the gate of the
house of the LORD. And they made a procla-
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24:15,16 Jehoiada. This man was the high
priest of Athaliah’s and Joash’s reigns (2 Chr. mation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to
23:1–24:16), who championed God’s cause of bring to the LORD the collection that Moses
righteousness during days of evil by: 1) lead- the servant of God had imposed on Israel in
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ing the fight against idols; 2) permitting the the wilderness. Then all the leaders and all the
coup against Athaliah; and 3) granting the people rejoiced, brought their contributions,
throne to Joash to bring about the subse- and put them into the chest until all had given.
quent revival. 11 So it was, at that time, when the chest was
brought to the king’s official by the hand of
the Levites, and when they saw that there was
down. They broke in pieces its altars and much money, that the king’s scribe and the
images, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal high priest’s officer came and emptied the
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before the altars. Also Jehoiada appointed chest, and took it and returned it to its place.
the oversight of the house of the LORD to the Thus they did day by day, and gathered
hand of the priests, the Levites, whom David money in abundance.
had assigned in the house of the LORD, to offer 12 The king and Jehoiada gave it to those who
the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written did the work of the service of the house of the
in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and with LORD; and they hired masons and carpenters
singing, as it was established by David. And to repair the house of the LORD, and also those
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he set the gatekeepers at the gates of the who worked in iron and bronze to restore the
house of the LORD, so that no one who was in house of the LORD. So the workmen labored,
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any way unclean should enter. and the work was completed by them; they
20 Then he took the captains of hundreds, the restored the house of God to its original condi-
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nobles, the governors of the people, and all tion and reinforced it. When they had fin-
the people of the land, and brought the king ished, they brought the rest of the money
down from the house of the LORD; and they before the king and Jehoiada; they made from
went through the Upper Gate to the king’s it articles for the house of the LORD, articles for
house, and set the king on the throne of the serving and offering, spoons and vessels of
kingdom. So all the people of the land gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings
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