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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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