II Chronicles Chapter 24

II Chronicles Chapter 24
1 Jehoash was seven year old, when he
began to reign, and he reigned forty year
in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Zibiah of Beer-sheba. 2 And Jehoash did
uprightly in the sight of the Lord, all the
days of Jehoiada the priest.
3 And Jehoiada took him two wives, and
he begat sons and daughters. 4 And
afterward it came into Jehoash's mind, to
renew the house of the Lord. 5 And he
assembled 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 haste the thing: but the
Levites hasted not. 6 Therefore the king
called Jehoiada, the chief, and said unto
him, Why hast thou not required of the
Levites to bring in out of Judah and
Jerusalem the tax of Moses the servant
of the Lord, and of the congregation of
Israel, for the tabernacle of the
testimony?
7 For wicked Athaliah, and her children
break up the house of God: and all the
things that were dedicated for the house
of the Lord, did they bestow upon
Baalim.
8 Therefore the king commanded, and
they made a chest, and set it at the gate
of the house of the Lord without.
9 And they made proclamation through
Judah and Jerusalem, to bring unto the
Lord the tax of 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 finished.
11 And when it was time, they brought
the chest unto the king's officer by the
hand of the Levites: and when they saw
that there was much silver, then the
king's scribe (and one appointed by the
high priest) came and emptied the chest,
and took it, and carried it to his place
again: thus they did day by day, and
gathered silver in abundance.
12 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to
such as did the labor and work in the
house of the Lord, and hired masons and
carpenters to repair the house of the
Lord: they gave it also to workers of
iron and brass, to repair the house of the
Lord.
13 So the workmen wrought, and the
work amended through their hands: and
they restored the house of God to his
state, and strengthened it. 14 And when
they had finished it, they brought the rest
of the silver before the king and
Jehoiada, and he made thereof vessels
for the house of the Lord, even vessels to
minister, both mortars and incense cups,
and vessels of gold, and of 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 and died. An hundred and thirty
year old was he when he died.
16 And they buried him in the city of
David with the kings, because he had
done good in Israel, and toward God and
his house.
17 And after the death of Jehoiada, came
the princes of Judah, and did reverence
to the king, and 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, because of this their
trespass.
19 And God sent prophets among them,
to bring them again unto the Lord: and
they made protestation among them, but
they would not hear. 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? Surely it
shall not prosper: because ye have
forsaken the Lord, he also hath forsaken
you.
21 Then 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 Jehoash
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 when the year was out, the host
of Aram [Syria] came up against him,
and they came against 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 Though the army of Aram [Syria]
came with a small company of men, yet
the Lord delivered a very great army
into their hand, because they had
forsaken the Lord God of their fathers:
and they gave sentence against Jehoash.
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 children 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 But his sons, and the sum of the tax
gathered by him, and the foundation 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.