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2 Kings 11–12

11 *aAnd when bAthaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. But ||Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took ||Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain. And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.

*And the seventh year cJehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the dcaptains and the eguard, and brought them to him into the house of the Lord, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the Lord, and shewed them the king’s son. And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you fthat enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king’s house; And a third part shall be at the gate of gSur; and a third part at the gate behind the eguard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, ||that it be not broken down. And two ||parts of all you fthat go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the Lord about the king. And ye shall hcompass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within ithe ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as jhe goeth out and as he cometh in. And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men fthat were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest. 10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David’s spears and kshields, that were in the temple of the Lord. 11 And the eguard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, along by the altar and the temple. 12 And he brought forth the king’s son, and put lthe crown upon him, and gave him mthe testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.

13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the Lord. 14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by na pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and oblew with trumpets: and Athaliah prent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason. 15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, qthe officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without ithe ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the Lord. 16 And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which rthe horses came into the king’s house: and there was she slain.

17 And sJehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people, that they should be the Lord’s people; tbetween the king also and the people. 18 And all the people of the land went into the uhouse of Baal, and brake it down; xhis altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the Lord. 19 And he took ythe rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the Lord, and came by the way zof the gate of the guard to the king’s house. And he sat on the throne of the kings. 20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king’s house. 21 Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.

12 In the seventh year of Jehu aJehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zibiah of bBeer-sheba. And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him. But cthe high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the ||dedicated things dthat is brought into the house of the Lord, even ethe money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that fcometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of the Lord, Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them grepair the breaches of the house, hwheresoever any breach shall be found. But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash ithe priests had not repaired the breaches of the house. Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? *now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house. And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house. But Jehoiada the priest took ka chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the Lord: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord. 10 And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king’s ||scribe and the lhigh priest came up, and they put up min bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the Lord. 11 And they gave the money, being told, ninto the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the Lord: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the Lord, 12 nAnd to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the Lord, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it. 13 Howbeit othere were not made for the house of the Lord pbowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the Lord: 14 But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the Lord. 15 Moreover qthey reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully. 16 The rtrespass money and ssin money was not brought into the house of the Lord: tit was the priests’.

17 *Then uHazael king of Syria went up, and fought against xGath, and took it: and Hazael yset his face to go up to Jerusalem. 18 And Jehoash king of Judah ztook all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and ahis own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and in the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and bhe went away from Jerusalem. 19 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 20 *And chis servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in ||the house of Millo, which goeth down to dSilla. 21 For ||Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of ||Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

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