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Lord, as it is written in the law of Moses, with testimony?
joy and singing, according to the disposition of 7 For that wicked woman Athalia, and her
David. children have destroyed the house of God, and
19 He appointed also porters in the gates of adorned the temple of Baal with all the things
the house of the Lord, that none who was un- that had been dedicated in the temple of the
clean in any thing should enter in. Lord.
20 And he took the captains of hundreds, and 8 And the king commanded, and they made a
the most valiant men, and the chiefs of the peo- chest: and set it by the gate of the house of the
ple, and all the people of the land, and they Lord on the outside.
brought down the king from the house of the 9 And they made a proclamation in Juda and
Lord, and brought him through the upper gate Jerusalem, that every man should bring to the
into the king’s house, and set him on the royal Lord the money which Moses the servant of God
throne. appointed for all Israel, in the desert.
21 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and 10 And all the princes, and all the people re-
the city was quiet: but Athalia was slain with the joiced: and going in they contributed and cast
sword. so much into the chest of the Lord, that it was
filled.
11 And when it was time to bring the chest
Chapter 24 before the king by the hands of the Levites, (for

they saw there was much money,) the king’s
Joas was seven years old when he began to reign: scribe, and he whom the high priest had ap-
and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: the pointed went in: and they poured out the money
name of his mother was Sebia of Bersabee. that was in the chest: and they carried back the
2 And he did that which is good before the chest to its place: and thus they did from day to
Lord all the days of Joiada the priest. day, and there was gathered an immense sum of
3 And Joiada took for him two wives, by whom money.
he had sons and daughters. 12 And the king and Joiada gave it to those
4 After this Joas had a mind to repair the who were over the works of the house of the Lord:
house of the Lord. but they hired with it stonecutters, and artificers
5 And he assembled the priests, and the of every kind of work to repair the house of the
Levites, and said to them: Go out to the cities of Lord: and such as wrought in iron and brass, to
Juda, and gather of all Israel money to repair the uphold what began to be falling.
temple of your God, from year to year: and do 13 And the workmen were diligent, and the
this with speed: but the Levites were negligent. breach of the walls was closed up by their hands,
6 And the king called Joiada the chief, and and they set up the house of the Lord in its for-
said to him: Why hast thou not taken care mer state, and made it stand firm.
to oblige the Levites to bring in out of Juda 14 And when they had finished all the works,
and Jerusalem the money that was appointed by they brought the rest of the money before the
Moses the servant of the Lord for all the multi- king and Joiada: and with it were made vessels
tude of Israel to bring into the tabernacle of the for the temple for the ministry, and for holo-