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went by the way, by the which the horses goe to beside the altar, on the right side, as euery man
the house of the King, and there was she slaine. commeth into the Temple of the Lord. And the
17 And Iehoiada made a couenant betweene the Priestes that kept the doore, put therein all the
Lord, and the King and the people, that they money that was brought into the house of the
should be the Lordes people: likewise betweene Lord. 10 And when they sawe there was much
the King and the people. 18 Then all the people money in the chest, the Kinges Secretarie came
of the lande went into the house of Baal, and vp and the hie Priest, and put it vp after that they
destroyed it with his altars, and his images brake had tolde the money that was found in the house
they downe courageously, and slewe Mattan the of the Lord, 11 And they gaue the money made
Priest of Baal before the altars: and the Priest set readie into the handes of them, that vndertooke
a garde ouer the house of the Lord. 19 Then he the worke, and that had the ouersight of the
tooke the captaines of hudreths, and the other house of the Lord; and they payed it out to the
captaines, and the garde, and all the people of carpenters and builders that wrought vpon the
the lande: and they brought the King from the house of the Lord, 12 And to the masons and
house of the Lord, and came by the way of the hewers of stone, and to bye timber and hewed
gate of the garde to the Kings house: and he sate stone, to repayre that was decayed in the house
him downe on the throne of the Kings. 20 And all of the Lord, and for all that which was layed out
the people of the land reioyced, and the citie was for the reparation of the Temple. 13 Howbeit
in quiet: for they had slaine Athaliah with the there was not made for the house of the Lord
sworde beside the Kings house. 21 Seuen yeere bowles of siluer, instruments of musicke, basons,
olde was Iehoash when he began to reigne. trumpets, nor any vessels of golde, or vessels of
siluer of the money that was brought into the
12 house of the Lord. 14 But they gaue it to the
1 In the seuenth yere of Iehu Iehoash began workemen, which repayred therewith the house
to reigne, and reigned fourty yeres in Ierusalem, of the Lord. 15 Moreouer, they reckoned not with
and his mothers name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba. the men, into whose handes they deliuered that
2 And Iehoash did that which was good in the money to be bestowed on workemen: for they
sight of the Lord all his time that Iehoiada the dealt faithfully. 16 The money of the trespasse
Priest taught him. 3 But the hie places were not offring and the money of ye sinne offrings was
taken away: for the people offred yet and burnt not brought into the house of the Lord: for it was
incense in the hie places. 4 And Iehoash sayde the Priests. 17 Then came vp Hazael King of Aram,
to the Priestes, All the siluer of dedicate things and fought against Gath and tooke it, and Hazael
that bee brought to the house of the Lord, that set his face to goe vp to Ierusalem. 18 And Iehoash
is, the money of them that are vnder the count, King of Iudah tooke all the halowed thinges that
the money that euery man is set at, and all the Iehoshaphat, and Iehoram, and Ahaziah his fa-
money that one offereth willingly, and bringeth thers Kings of Iudah had dedicated, and that he
into the house of the Lord, Let the Priestes take himselfe had dedicated, and all the golde that
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it to them, euery man of his acquaintance: and was found in the treasures of the house of the
they shall repaire the broken places of the house, Lord and in the Kings house, and sent it to Hazael
wheresoeuer any decay is founde. 6 Yet in the King of Aram, and he departed from Ierusalem.
three and twentieth yeere of King Iehoash the 19 Concerning the rest of the acts of Ioash and
Priestes had not mended that which was decayed all that he did, are they not written in the booke
in the Temple. 7 Then King Iehoash called for of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah? 20 And
Iehoiada the Priest, and the other Priestes, and his seruants arose and wrought treason, and
sayd vnto them, Why repaire yee not the ruines slewe Ioash in the house of Millo, when he came
of the Temple? nowe therefore receiue no more downe to Silla: 21 Euen Iozachar the sonne of
money of your acquaintance, except yee deliuer Shimeath, and Iehozabad the sonne of Shomer
it to repaire the ruines of the Temple. 8 So the his seruants smote him, and he dyed: and they
Priestes consented to receiue no more money of buried him with his fathers in the citie of Dauid.
And Amaziah his sonne reigned in his stead.
the people, neither to repaire the decayed places
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of the Temple. Then Iehoiada the Priest tooke a
chest and bored an hole in the lid of it, and set it