Verse 24
2 Chronicles 24:24
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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And whereas there came a very small number of the Syrians, the Lord delivered into their hands an infinite multitude, because they had forsaken the Lord the God (Elohim) of their fathers: and on Joas they executed shameful judgments.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּי֩ בְ/מִצְעַ֨ר אֲנָשִׁ֜ים בָּ֣אוּ חֵ֣יל אֲרָ֗ם וַֽ/יהוָה֙ נָתַ֨ן בְּ/יָדָ֥/ם חַ֨יִל֙ לָ/רֹ֣ב מְאֹ֔ד כִּ֣י עָֽזְב֔וּ אֶת יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י אֲבוֹתֵי/הֶ֑ם וְ/אֶת יוֹאָ֖שׁ עָשׂ֥וּ שְׁפָטִֽים
English Translation
For in the distress of men, the army of Aram came, and the LORD gave them a very great strength because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their ancestors, and they made Joash judgments.
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Chapter 24 Context
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Joas was seven years old when he began to reign: and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem : the name...
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And he did that which is good before the Lord all the days of Joiada the priest.
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And Joiada took for him two wives, by whom he had sons and daughters.
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After this Joas had a mind to repair the house of the Lord.
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And he assembled the priests, and the Levites, and said to them: Go out to the cities of Juda, and g...
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And the king called Joiada the chief, and said to him: Why hast thou not taken care to oblige the Le...
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For that wicked woman Athalia, and her children have destroyed the house of God (Elohim), and adorne...
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And the king commanded, and they made a chest: and set it by the gate of the house of the Lord on th...
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And they made a proclamation in Juda and Jerusalem, that every man should bring to the Lord the mone...
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And all the princes, and all the people rejoiced: and going In they contributed and cast so much int...
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And when it was time to bring the chest before the king by the hands of the Levites, (for they saw t...
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And the king and Joiada gave it to those who were over the works of the house of the Lord: but they...
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And the workmen were diligent, and the breach of the walls was closed up by their hands, and they se...
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And when they had finished all the works, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Joi...
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But Joiada grew old and was full of days, and died when he was a hundred and thirty years old.
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And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good to Israel, and to...
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And after the death of Joiada, the princes of Juda went in, and worshipped the king: and he was soot...
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And they forsook the temple of the Lord the God (Elohim) of their fathers, and served groves and ido...
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And he sent prophets to them to bring them back to the Lord, and they would not give ear when they t...
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The spirit of God (Elohim) then came upon Zacharias the son of Joiada the priest, and he stood in th...
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And they gathered themselves together against him, and stoned him at the king's commandment in the c...
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And king Joas did not remember the kindness that Joiada his father had done to him, but killed his s...
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And when a year was come about, the army of Syria came up against him: and they came to Juda and Jer...
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And whereas there came a very small number of the Syrians, the Lord delivered into their hands an in...
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And departing they left him in diseases: and his servants rose up him, for revenge of the blood of t...
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Now the men that conspired against him were Zabad the son of Semmaath an Ammonitess, and Jozabad the...
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And concerning his sons, and the sum of money which was gathered under him, and the repairing the ho...
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