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chapter 24
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Joas
was seven years old when he began to reign: and he reigned forty years in
Jerusalem : the name of his mother was Sebia of Bersabee.
2 And he did that which is good before the Lord all the
days of Joiada the priest.
3 And Joiada took for him two wives, by whom he had
sons and daughters.
4 After this Joas had a mind to repair the house of the
Lord.
5 And he assembled the priests, and the Levites, and
said to them: Go out to the cities of Juda, and gather of all Israel money to
repair the temple of your God, from year to year: and do this with speed: but
the Levites were negligent.
6 And the king called Joiada the chief, and said to
him: Why hast thou not taken care to oblige the Levites to bring in out of Juda
and Jerusalem the money that was appointed by Moses the servant of the Lord for
all the multitude of Israel to bring into the tabernacle of the testimony?
7 For that wicked woman Athalia, and her children have
destroyed the house of God, and adorned the temple of Baal with all the things
that had been dedicated in the temple of the Lord.
8 And the king commanded, and they made a chest: and
set it by the gate of the house of the Lord on the outside.
9 And they made a proclamation in Juda and Jerusalem,
that every man should bring to the Lord the money which Moses the servant of
God appointed for all Israel, in the desert.
10 And all the princes, and all the people rejoiced:
and going In they contributed and cast so much into the chest of the Lord, that
it was filled.
11 And when it was time to bring the chest before the
king by the hands of the Levites, (for they saw there was much money,) the
king's scribe, and he whom the high priest had appointed went in: and they
poured out the money that was in the chest: and they carried back the chest to
its place: and thus they did from day to day, and there was gathered an immense
sum of money.
12 And the king and Joiada gave it to those who were
over the works of the house of the Lord: but they hired with it stonecutters,
and artificers of every kind of work to repair the house of the Lord: and such
as wrought in iron and brass, to uphold what began to be falling.
13 And the workmen were diligent, and the breach of the
walls was closed up by their hands, and they set up the house of the Lord in
its former state, and made it stand firm.
14 And when they had finished all the works, they
brought the rest of the money before the king and Joiada: and with it were made
vessels for the temple for the ministry, and for holocausts and bowls, and
other vessels of gold and silver : and holocausts were offered in the house of
the Lord continually all the days of Joiada.
15 But Joiada grew old and was full of days, and died
when he was a hundred and thirty years old.
16 And they buried him in the city of David among the
kings, because he had done good to Israel, and to his house.
17 And after the death of Joiada, the princes of Juda
went in, and worshipped the king: and he was soothed by their services and
hearkened to them.
18 And they forsook the temple of the Lord the God of
their fathers, and served groves and idols, and wrath came upon Juda and
Jerusalem for this sin.
19 And he sent prophets to them to bring them back to
the Lord, and they would not give ear when they testified against them.
20 The spirit of God then came upon Zacharias the son
of Joiada the priest, and he stood in the sight of the people, and said to
them: Thus saith the Lord God: Why transgress you the commandment of the Lord
which will not be for your good, and have forsaken the Lord, to make him
forsake you?
21 And they gathered themselves together against him,
and stoned him at the king's commandment in the court of the house of the Lord.
22 And king Joas did not remember the kindness that
Joiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he
said: The Lord see, and require it.
23 And when a year was come about, the army of Syria
came up against him: and they came to Juda and Jerusalem, end killed all the
princes of the people, and they sent all the spoils to the king of Damascus.
24 And whereas there came a very small number of the
Syrians, the Lord delivered into their hands an infinite multitude, because
they had forsaken the Lord the God of their fathers: and on Joas they executed
shameful judgments.
25 And departing they left him in diseases: and his
servants rose up him, for revenge of the blood of the son of Joiada the priest,
and they slew him in his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of
David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
26 Now the men that conspired against him were Zabad
the son of Semmaath an Ammonitess, and Jozabad the son of Semarith a Moabitess.
27 And concerning his sons, and the sum of money which
was gathered under him, and the repairing the house of God; they are written
more diligently in the book of kings: and Amasias his son reigned in his stead.
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