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1 Joash was sev­en years old when he be­gan to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Zib­i­ah of Beer­she­ba. 2 And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Je­hoia­da the priest. 3 And Je­hoia­da took for him two wives; and he be­gat sons and daugh­ters. 4 And it came to pass af­ter this, that Joash was mind­ed to re­pair the house of the LORD. 5 And he gath­ered to­geth­er the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Ju­dah, and gath­er of all Is­rael mon­ey to re­pair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye has­ten the mat­ter. How­beit the Levites has­tened it not. 6 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? 7 For the sons of Athali­ah, that wicked wom­an, had bro­ken up the house of God; and also all the ded­i­cat­ed things of the house of the LORD did they be­stow upon Baal­im. 8 And at the king's com­mand­ment they made a chest, and set it with­out at the gate of the house of the LORD. 9 And they made a procla­ma­tion through Ju­dah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the LORD the col­lec­tion that Moses the ser­vant of God laid upon Is­rael in the wilder­ness. 10 And all the princes and all the peo­ple re­joiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, un­til they had made an end. 11 Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king's of­fice by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much mon­ey, the king's scribe and the high priest's of­fi­cer came and emp­tied the chest, and took it, and car­ried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and gath­ered mon­ey in abun­dance. 12 And the king and Je­hoia­da gave it to such as did the work of the ser­vice of the house of the LORD, and hired ma­sons and car­pen­ters to re­pair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD. 13 So the work­men wrought, and the work was per­fect­ed by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strength­ened it. 14 And when they had fin­ished it, they brought the rest of the mon­ey be­fore the king and Je­hoia­da, where­of were made ves­sels for the house of the LORD, even ves­sels to min­is­ter, and to of­fer withal, 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. 15 But Je­hoia­da waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hun­dred and thir­ty years old was he when he died. 16 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, be­cause he had done good in Is­rael, both to­ward God, and to­ward his house. 17 Now af­ter the death of Je­hoia­da came the princes of Ju­dah, and made obei­sance to the king. Then the king hear­kened unto them. 18 And they left the house of the LORD God of their fa­thers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Ju­dah and Jerusalem for this their tres­pass. 19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they tes­ti­fied against them: but they would not give ear. 20 And the Spir­it of God came upon Zechari­ah the son of Je­hoia­da the priest, which stood above the peo­ple, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the com­mand­ments of the LORD, that ye can­not pros­per? be­cause ye have for­sak­en the LORD, he hath also for­sak­en you. 21 And they con­spired against him, and stoned him with stones at the com­mand­ment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD. 22 Thus Joash the king re­mem­bered not the kind­ness which Je­hoia­da his fa­ther had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and re­quire it. 23 And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syr­ia came up against him: and they came to Ju­dah and Jerusalem, and de­stroyed all the princes of the peo­ple from among the peo­ple, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Dam­as­cus. 24 For the army of the Syr­i­ans came with a small com­pa­ny of men, and the LORD de­liv­ered a very great host into their hand, be­cause they had for­sak­en the LORD God of their fa­thers. So they ex­e­cut­ed judg­ment against Joash. 25 And when they were de­part­ed from him, (for they left him in great dis­eases, ) his own ser­vants con­spired against him for the blood of the sons of Je­hoia­da the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepul­chres of the kings. 26 And these are they that con­spired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Am­monitess, and Je­hoz­abad the son of Shim­rith a Moabitess. 27 Now concerning his sons, and the great­ness of the bur­dens laid upon him, and the re­pair­ing of the house of God, be­hold, they are writ­ten in the sto­ry of the book of the kings. And Amazi­ah his son reigned in his stead.