2 Chronicles 24
24:1Joash was seven years old in his taking reign, and forty years he reigned in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Zibeah from Beer-sheba.
24:2And Joash did the upright thing before the lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
24:3And Jehoiada took two wives to himself, and he engendered sons and daughters.
24:4And it came to pass after these things, that it came upon the heart of Joash to repair the house of the lord.
24:5And he gathered the priests and the Levites, and he said to them, Go forth into the cities of Judah, and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of the lord your God until fit, year by year! And hasten to speak! And the Levites hastened not.
24:6And the king called Jehoiada the ruler, and he said to him, Why did you not require concerning the Levites, so as to carry in from Judah and Jerusalem the adjudged concern by Moses the man of God, for the assembly of Israel in the tent of the testimony?
24:7For Athaliah was lawless, and her sons tore down the house of God; and also all the holy things of the house of the lord they appointed to the Baals.
24:8And the king said, Let there be a container, and let it be put at the gate of the house of the lord outside!
24:9And let them proclaim in Judah and in Jerusalem, to carry in to the lord as Moses the servant of God said unto Israel in the wilderness.
24:10And all the rulers were glad and all the people; and they carried in, and cast into the container, until of which it was filled.
24:11And it came to pass in the time to bring in the container to the superintendents of the king by the hand of the Levites, that when they beheld that the money was superabundant, that the scribe of the king came, and the superintendent of the great priest; and they emptied out the container, and they lifted and placed it upon its place. Thus they did day by day, and they gathered much money.
24:12And the king and Jehoiada the priest gave it to the ones doing the works for the work of the house of the lord. And they hired quarriers and fabricators to repair the house of the lord, and braziers of iron and of brass to strengthen the house of the lord.
24:13And the ones doing the works did so, and there ascended the length of the works by their hands. And they reestablished the house of the lord in its position, and they strengthened it.
24:14And as they completed, they brought to the king and to Jehoiada the rest of the money, and they made with it items for the house of the lord, items for the ministry, and of the whole burnt-offerings, and incense pans, and gold and silver vessels. And they offered whole burnt-offerings in the house of the lord continually all the days of Jehoiada.
24:15And Jehoiada grew old, and was full of days. And he came to an end being a son a hundred and thirty years at his coming to an end.
24:16And they entombed him in the city of David with the kings, for he did goodness with Israel, and with God, and his house.
24:17And it came to pass after the decease of Jehoiada, the rulers of Judah entered and did obeisance to the king. Then the king heeded them.
24:18And they abandoned the house of the lord the God of their fathers, and they served to Ashtoreth and the idols. And there came anger against Judah and against Jerusalem in their trespass.
24:19And he sent to them prophets to turn them to the lord. And they testified to them, and they hearkened not.
24:20And spirit of God was put on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he rose above the people, and said to them, Thus says the lord, Why do you pass by the commandments of the lord, and your way shall not prosper? For you abandoned the lord, and he shall abandon you.
24:21And they assailed against him, and stoned him with stones by command of Joash the king in the courtyard of the house of the lord.
24:22And Joash the king did not remember the mercy of which Jehoiada his father performed with him, and he put his son to death. And as he died, he said, The lord behold even to judge!
24:23And it came to pass at the completion of the year, the force of Syria ascended against him, and came against Judah, and against Jerusalem, and they utterly destroyed all the rulers of the people from among the people; and all their spoils they sent to the king of Damascus.
24:24For the force of Syria came with a few men, but God delivered up into their hands an exceedingly vast force, for they abandoned the lord the God of their fathers. And with Joash they executed judgments.
24:25And after their going forth from him, in abandoning him with great infirmities, that his servants assailed against him because of the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest; and they killed him upon his bed, and he died. And they entombed him in the city of David, but they did not entomb him in the tomb of the kings.
24:26And the ones assailing against him -- Zabad son of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad son of Shimrith the Moabitess.
24:27And his sons, and the greatest concerns about him, and the groundwork of the house of God, and the rest, behold, it is written upon the writing of the scroll of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned instead of him.