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For the sons of Athali'ah, that wicked woman, had broken into the house of God; and had also used all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD for the Ba'als.
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So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside the gate of the house of the LORD.
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And proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for the LORD the tax that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.
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And all the princes and all the people rejoiced and brought their tax and dropped it into the chest until they had finished.
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And whenever the chest was brought to the king's officers by the Levites, when they saw that there was much money in it, the king's secretary and the officer of the chief priest would come and empty the chest and take it and return it to its place. Thus they did day after day, and collected money in abundance.
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And the king and Jehoi'ada gave it to those who had charge of the work of the house of the LORD, and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of the LORD, and also workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of the LORD.
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So those who were engaged in the work labored, and the repairing went forward in their hands, and they restored the house of God to its proper condition and strengthened it.
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And when they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoi'ada, and with it were made utensils for the house of the LORD, both for the service and for the burnt offerings, and dishes for incense, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoi'ada.
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But Jehoi'ada grew old and full of days, and died; he was a hundred and thirty years old at his death.
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And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.
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Now after the death of Jehoi'ada the princes of Judah came and did obeisance to the king; then the king hearkened to them.