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So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands, and they set up the house of God in its state, and strengthened it.
14
When they had made an end, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Yehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of the LORD, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Yehoiada.
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But Yehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died; one hundred thirty years old was he when he died.
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They buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Yisra'el, and toward God and his house.
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Now after the death of Yehoiada came the princes of Yehudah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king listened to them.
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They forsook the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came on Yehudah and Yerushalayim for this their guiltiness.
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Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.
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The Spirit of God came on Zekharyah the son of Yehoiada the Kohen; and he stood above the people, and said to them, Thus says God, Why disobey you the mitzvot of the LORD, so that you can't prosper? because you have forsaken the LORD, he has also forsaken you.
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They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the mitzvah of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
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Thus Yo'ash the king didn't remember the kindness which Yehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, the LORD look on it, and require it.
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It happened at the end of the year, that the army of the Aram came up against him: and they came to Yehudah and Yerushalayim, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them to the king of Dammesek.