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CHAPTER 23
2 Chronicles 23:1
1 And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the
captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of
Jehohanan,  and Azariah  the son  of Obed,  and Maaseiah  the son  of
Adaiah,  and Elishaphat  the son  of Zichri,  into covenant  with him. 2
Chronicles 23:2
2 And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the
cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to
Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 23:3
3 And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of
God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the LORD
hath said of the sons  of David.
2 Chronicles 23:4
4 This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering on the
sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the doors;
2 Chronicles 23:5
5 And a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the
gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the
house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 23:6
6 But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they
that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all
the people shall keep the watch of the LORD. 2 Chronicles 23:7
7 And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his
weapons in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into the house, he shall be
put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth
out.
2 Chronicles 23:8
8 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada
the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in
on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the sabbath:  for Jehoiada
 the priest  dismissed  not the courses. 2 Chronicles 23:9
9 Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds
spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which were
in the house of God.
2 Chronicles 23:10
10 And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from
the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the
altar and the temple,  by the king  round about. 2 Chronicles 23:11
11 Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown, and
gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons
anointed him, and said, God save the king. 2 Chronicles 23:12
12 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the
king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD: 2 Chronicles 23:13
13 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the
entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the
people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets,  also the singers 
with instruments  of musick,  and such as taught  to sing praise.  Then
Athaliah rent  her clothes,  and said,  Treason,  Treason. 2 Chronicles
23:14
14 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were
set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges: and
whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword.  For the priest 
said, Slay  her not in the house  of the LORD. 2 Chronicles 23:15
15 So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the
horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there. 2 Chronicles 23:16
16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people,
and between the king, that they should be the LORD'S people. 2 Chronicles
23:17
17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and
brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of
Baal  before  the altars.
2 Chronicles 23:18
18 Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand
of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the
LORD, to offer  the burnt offerings  of the LORD,  as it is written  in the
law  of Moses,  with rejoicing  and with singing,  as it was ordained by
David.
2 Chronicles 23:19
19 And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none
which was unclean in any thing should enter in. 2 Chronicles 23:20
20 And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors
of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king
from the house of the LORD: and they came  through  the high  gate  into
the king's  house,  and set  the king  upon the throne  of the kingdom. 2
Chronicles 23:21
21 And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after
that they had slain Athaliah with the sword. CHAPTER 24
2 Chronicles 24:1
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
Chronicles 24:2
2 And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days
of Jehoiada the priest.
2 Chronicles 24:3
3 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters. 2
Chronicles 24:4
4 And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house
of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 24:5
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. 2 Chronicles 24:6
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?
2 Chronicles 24:7
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.
2 Chronicles 24:8
8 And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it without at
the gate of the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 24:9
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.
2 Chronicles 24:10
10 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and
cast into the chest, until they had made an end. 2 Chronicles 24:11
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. 2
Chronicles 24:12
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.
2 Chronicles 24:13
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. 2 Chronicles 24:14
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. 2 Chronicles 24:15
15 But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred
and thirty years old was he when he died. 2 Chronicles 24:16
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. 2 Chronicles
24:17
17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made
obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them. 2 Chronicles
24:18
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.
2 Chronicles 24:19
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. 2 Chronicles
24:20
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. 2
Chronicles 24:21
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. 2 Chronicles
24:22
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.
2 Chronicles 24:23
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.
2 Chronicles 24:24
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. 2 Chronicles 24:25
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.
2 Chronicles 24:26
26 And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath
an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess. 2 Chronicles
24:27
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.
CHAPTER 25
2 Chronicles 25:1
1 Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name  was
Jehoaddan  of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 25:2
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a
perfect heart.
2 Chronicles 25:3
3 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he
slew his servants that had killed the king his father. 2 Chronicles 25:4
4 But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in
the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not
die for the children, neither shall the children  die  for the fathers, 
but every man  shall die  for his own sin. 2 Chronicles 25:5
5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over
thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their
fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin:  and he numbered  them from
twenty  years  old  and above,  and found  them three  hundred  thousand
choice  men, able to go forth  to war,  that could handle  spear  and
shield.
2 Chronicles 25:6
6 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for
an hundred talents of silver.
2 Chronicles 25:7
7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of
Israel go with thee; for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit, with all the
children of Ephraim.
2 Chronicles 25:8
8 But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle: God shall make thee
fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down. 2
Chronicles 25:9
9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred
talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God
answered,  The LORD  is  able to give  thee much more  than this. 2
Chronicles 25:10
10 Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that was come to him out
of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled
against Judah, and they returned  home  in great  anger. 2 Chronicles 25:11
11 And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to
the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand. 2
Chronicles 25:12
12 And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away
captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from
the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces. 2 Chronicles
25:13
13 But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should
not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even
unto Bethhoron, and smote three  thousand  of them, and took  much  spoil.
2 Chronicles 25:14
14 Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of
the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set
them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before  them, and burned
incense unto them.
2 Chronicles 25:15
15 Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent
unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the
gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine
hand? 2 Chronicles 25:16
16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him,
Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be
smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath
determined  to destroy  thee, because thou hast done  this, and hast not
hearkened  unto my counsel.
2 Chronicles 25:17
17 Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of
Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying,  Come,  let us see one
another  in the face.
2 Chronicles 25:18
18 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The
thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon,  saying,
Give  thy daughter  to my son  to wife:  and there passed by  a wild  beast
that was in Lebanon,  and trode down  the thistle. 2 Chronicles 25:19
19 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth
thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine
hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee? 2
Chronicles 25:20
20 But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might deliver
them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of
Edom.
2 Chronicles 25:21
21 So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the
face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to
Judah.
2 Chronicles 25:22
22 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent.
2 Chronicles 25:23
23 And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of
Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought  him to Jerusalem,
and brake down  the wall  of Jerusalem  from the gate  of Ephraim  to the
corner  gate,  four  hundred  cubits. 2 Chronicles 25:24
24 And he took all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were
found in the house of God with Obededom, and the treasures of the king's
house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria. 2 Chronicles 25:25
25 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of
Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel  fifteen  years. 2 Chronicles 25:26
26 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they
not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel? 2 Chronicles
25:27
27 Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the LORD
they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish:
but they sent to Lachish after  him, and slew  him there. 2 Chronicles
25:28
28 And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the
city of Judah.


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