2 Chronicles 24:4
Now after this Joash had a desire to put the house of the Lord into good order again;
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2 Chronicles 24:4
Now after this Joash had a desire to put the house of the Lord into good order again;
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2 Chronicles 24:1
Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he was ruling for forty years in Jerusalem: his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
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2 Chronicles 24:2
And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as long as Jehoiada the priest was living.
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2 Chronicles 24:8
So at the king's order they made a chest and put it outside the doorway of the house of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 24:9
And an order was sent out through all Judah and Jerusalem that payment was to be made to the Lord of the tax which Moses, the servant of God, had put on Israel in the waste land.
2 Chronicles 24:10
And all the chiefs and all the people came gladly and put their money into the chest, till they had all given.
2 Chronicles 24:11
So when the chest was taken to the king's servants by the Levites, and they saw that there was much money in it, the king's scribe and the chief priest's servant took the money out, and put the chest back in its place. They did this day by day, and got together a great amount of money.
2 Chronicles 24:14
And when the work was done, they took the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada, and it was used for making the vessels for the house of the Lord, all the vessels needed for the offerings, the spoons and the vessels of gold and silver. And as long as Jehoiada was living, the regular burned offerings were offered in the house of the Lord.
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2 Chronicles 24:18
And they gave up the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and became worshippers of pillars of wood and of the images; and because of this sin of theirs, wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem.
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