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And Joash did
that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada, the priest.
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And Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he begat sons and daughters.
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And it came to pass after this
that Joash desired to repair the house of the LORD.
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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 be diligent in this matter. However the Levites were not diligent.
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Therefore 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 unto the tabernacle of the testimony the collection,
according to the commandment of Moses, the slave of the LORD and of the congregation of Israel?
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For the wicked woman, Athaliah, and her sons had broken up the house of God, and they had also bestowed all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD upon Baalim.
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And at the king’s commandment they made an ark and set it outside at the gate of the house of the LORD.
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And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem to bring in to the LORD the collection
that Moses the slave of God
laid upon Israel in the wilderness.
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And all the princes and all the people rejoiced and brought in and cast into the ark until they had fulfilled
their duty.
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Now it came to pass, that at what time the ark 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 ark and took it and returned it to its place. Thus they did day by day and gathered money in abundance.
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And the king and Jehoiada gave it to those that 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 those that wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.