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So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the house of the LORD.
9
They made a proclamation through Yehudah and Yerushalayim, to bring in for the LORD the tax that Moshe the servant of God laid on Yisra'el in the wilderness.
10
All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
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It was so, that whenever the chest was brought to the king's officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's Sofer and the chief Kohen's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
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The king and Yehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD; and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of the LORD, and also such as worked iron and brass to repair the house of the LORD.
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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.
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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.