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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.
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So the workmen wrought, and by their hands the work was done, and they restored the house of God 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 they made vessels for the house of the LORD, vessels to minister and to offer
with, 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; he was one hundred and thirty years old 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.