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So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them; and they set the house of God in order, and strengthened it.
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And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, of which 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.
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But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died: a hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
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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.
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Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
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And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served Asherah poles and idols; and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
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Yet He sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them, but they would not give ear.
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And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, who 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.'"
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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.
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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."
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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 their spoil unto the king of Damascus.