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23:13. And when she saw the king standing upon the step in the entrance,
and the princes, and the companies about him, and all the people of the
land rejoicing, and sounding with trumpets, and playing on instruments
of divers kinds, and the voice of those that praised, she rent her
garments, and said: Treason, treason.
23:14. And Joiada the high priest going out to the captains, and the
chiefs of the army, said to them: Take her forth without the precinct of
the temple, and when she is without let her be killed with the sword.
For the priest commanded that she should not be killed in the house of
the Lord.
23:15. And they laid hold on her by the neck: and when she was come
within the horse gate of the palace, they killed her there.
23:16. And Joiada made a covenant between himself and all the people,
and the king, that they should be the people of the lord.
23:17. And all the people went into the house of Baal, and destroyed it:
and they broke down his altars and his idols: and they slew Mathan the
priest of Baal before the altars.
23:18. And Joiada appointed overseers in the house of the Lord, under
the hands of the priests, and the Levites, whom David had distributed in
the house of the Lord: to offer holocausts to the Lord, as it is written
in the law of Moses, with joy and singing, according to the disposition
of David.
23:19. He appointed also porters in the gates of the house of the Lord,
that none who was unclean in any thing should enter in.
23:20. And he took the captains of hundreds, and the most valiant men,
and the chiefs of the people, and all the people of the land, and they
brought down the king from the house of the Lord, and brought him
through the upper gate into the king's house, and set him on the royal
throne.
23:21. And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet:
but Athalia was slain with the sword.
2 Paralipomenon Chapter 24
Joas reigneth well all the days of Joiada: afterwards falleth into
idolatry and causeth Zacharias to be slain. He is slain himself by his
servants.
24:1. Joas was seven years old when he began to reign: and he reigned
forty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Sebia of Bersabee.
24:2. And he did that which is good before the Lord all the days of
Joiada the priest.
24:3. And Joiada took for him two wives, by whom he had sons and
daughters.
24:4. After this Joas had a mind to repair the house of the Lord.
24:5. And he assembled the priests, and the Levites, and said to them:
Go out to the cities of Juda, and gather of all Israel money to repair
the temple of your God, from year to year: and do this with speed: but
the Levites were negligent.
24:6. And the king called Joiada the chief, and said to him: Why hast
thou not taken care to oblige the Levites to bring in out of Juda and
Jerusalem the money that was appointed by Moses the servant of the Lord
for all the multitude of Israel to bring into the tabernacle of the
testimony?
24:7. For that wicked woman Athalia, and her children have destroyed the
house of God, and adorned the temple of Baal with all the things that
had been dedicated in the temple of the Lord.
24:8. And the king commanded, and they made a chest: and set it by the
gate of the house of the Lord on the outside.
24:9. And they made a proclamation in Juda and Jerusalem, that every man
should bring to the Lord the money which Moses the servant of God
appointed for all Israel, in the desert.
24:10. And all the princes, and all the people rejoiced: and going in
they contributed and cast so much into the chest of the Lord, that it
was filled.
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