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going off duty on the Sabbath, and came to the people of the land rejoiced; and the city
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Jehoiada the priest. And the priest gave the was quiet, for they had slain Athaliah with the
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captains of hundreds the spears and shields sword in the king’s house. Jehoash was
which had belonged to King David, that were in seven years old when he became king.
the temple of the LORD. Then the escorts In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash
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stood, every man with his weapons in his 12 became king, and he reigned forty years
hand, all around the king, from the right side in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of
of the temple to the left side of the temple, by Beersheba. Jehoash did what was right in the
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the altar and the house. And he brought out sight of the LORD all the days in which
the king’s son, put the crown on him, and gave Jehoiada the priest instructed him. But the
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him the Testimony; they made him king and high places were not taken away; the people
anointed him, and they clapped their hands still sacrificed and burned incense on the high
and said, “Long live the king!” places.
13 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the 4 And Jehoash said to the priests, “All the
escorts and the people, she came to the peo- money of the dedicated gifts that are brought
ple in the temple of the LORD. When she into the house of the LORD—each man’s census
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looked, there was the king standing by a pillar money, each man’s assessment money—and all
according to custom; and the leaders and the the money that a man purposes in his heart to
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trumpeters were by the king. All the people of bring into the house of the LORD, let the priests
the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets. take it themselves, each from his constituency;
So Athaliah tore her clothes and cried out, and let them repair the damages of the temple,
“Treason! Treason!” wherever any dilapidation is found.”
15 And Jehoiada the priest commanded the 6 Now it was so, by the twenty-third year of
captains of the hundreds, the officers of the King Jehoash, that the priests had not
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army, and said to them, “Take her outside un- repaired the damages of the temple. So King
der guard, and slay with the sword whoever Jehoash called Jehoiada the priest and the
follows her.” For the priest had said, “Do not other priests, and said to them, “Why have you
let her be killed in the house of the LORD.” So not repaired the damages of the temple? Now
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they seized her; and she went by way of the therefore, do not take more money from your
horses’ entrance into the king’s house, and constituency, but deliver it for repairing the
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there she was killed. damages of the temple.” And the priests
17 Then Jehoiada made a covenant between agreed that they would neither receive more
the LORD, the king, and the people, that they money from the people, nor repair the dam-
should be the LORD’s people, and also between ages of the temple.
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the king and the people. And all the people of 9 Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest,
bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the
altar, on the right side as one comes into the
house of the LORD; and the priests who kept
the door put there all the money brought into
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ment between the people and the Lord and the house of the LORD. So it was, whenever
between the house of David and the people they saw that there was much money in the
was appropriate because of the disruption chest, that the king’s scribe and the high
under Athaliah. A similar ceremony was held priest came up and put it in bags, and counted
later, during the reign of Josiah (23:1–3). the money that was found in the house of the
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LORD. Then they gave the money, which had
been apportioned, into the hands of those who
did the work, who had the oversight of the
the land went to the temple of Baal, and tore it house of the LORD; and they paid it out to the car-
down. They thoroughly broke in pieces its penters and builders who worked on the
altars and images, and killed Mattan the priest house of the LORD, and to masons and
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of Baal before the altars. And the priest stonecutters, and for buying timber and hewn
appointed officers over the house of the LORD. stone, to repair the damage of the house of the
19 Then he took the captains of hundreds, the LORD, and for all that was paid out to repair the
bodyguards, the escorts, and all the people of temple. However there were not made for
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the land; and they brought the king down the house of the LORD basins of silver, trim-
from the house of the LORD, and went by way mers, sprinkling-bowls, trumpets, any articles
of the gate of the escorts to the king’s house. of gold or articles of silver, from the money
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Then he sat on the throne of the kings. So all brought into the house of the LORD. But they
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