17 Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and people, that they should be the Lords people; also between the king and the people. 18Then all the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they killed Mattan, the priest of Baal, before the altars. The priest posted guards over the house of the Lord. 19He took the captains, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land; then they brought the king down from the house of the Lord, marching through the gate of the guards to the kings house. He took his seat on the throne of the kings. 20So all the people of the land rejoiced; and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been killed with the sword at the kings house.
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12In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign; he reigned for forty years in Jerusalem. His mothers name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba. 2Jehoash did what was right in the sight of the Lord all his days, because the priest Jehoiada instructed him. 3Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings on the high places.
4 Jehoash said to the priests, All the money offered as sacred donations that is brought into the house of the Lord, the money for which each person is assessedthe money from the assessment of personsand the money from the voluntary offerings brought into the house of the Lord, 5let the priests receive from each of the donors; and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered. 6But by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had made no repairs to the house. 7Therefore King Jehoash summoned the priest Jehoiada with the other priests and said to them, Why are you not repairing the house? Now therefore do not accept any more money from your donors but hand it over for the repair of the house. 8So the priests agreed that they would neither accept more money from the people nor repair the house.
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