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Then he said, "Come with me! Look at my zeal for Yahweh!" So he let him ride in his chariot.

So then, summon to me all of the prophets of Baal and all of his servants and his priests; no man should fail to come, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal. Anyone who fails to come shall not live!" Now Jehu was acting with cunning in order to destroy the servants of Baal.

Then Jehu said, "Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal!" So they proclaimed it.

He said to the one who was over the wardrobe, "Bring out clothing for all of the servants of Baal." So he brought the clothing out for them.

They came to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed for himself eighty men outside, and he said, "The man who lets anyone escape from the men who I am entrusting to you, he will pay with his life!"

Yahweh said to Jehu, "Because you have done well by doing right in my eyes and you have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart; therefore, sons of the fourth generation will sit for you on the throne of Israel."

He remained with her in the temple of Yahweh, hidden for six years while Athaliah was reigning over the land.

Two of the units among you, all who go on duty on the Sabbath, guard the post of the temple of Yahweh for the king.

Then Jehoiada the priest commanded the commanders of the hundreds, the appointed of the army, and he said to them, "Bring her out to the house of the ranks! The one coming after her should kill her with the sword," for the priest had said, "Let her not be killed in the temple of Yahweh."

Then Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that the people should be as a people for Yahweh, and also a covenant between the king and the people.

All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city rested; for Athaliah had been killed with the sword in the palace of the king.

Jehoash said to the priests, "All of the money for the sacred things that is brought to the temple of Yahweh, the money taxed at its proper value for each person and all of the money which comes upon the heart of a man to bring to the temple of Yahweh,

let the priests take for themselves, each from his treasurers, and let them repair the breach of the temple for every place where damage is found."

So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the priests, and he said to them, "Why are you not repairing the damage in the temple? Now, you shall not take money from your treasurers for the damage in the temple. You must provide it."

and to the masons and the stonecutters, to buy timber and stones for hewing, in order to repair the damage of the temple of Yahweh, and for all who went to the temple to repair it.

Only, for the temple of Yahweh, there were not any silver basins, snuffers, bowls for drinking wine, trumpets, or any vessel of gold or silver from the money being brought to the temple of Yahweh.

For they gave that to all the workers, and they repaired the temple of Yahweh with it.

They did not have to settle accounts with the men into whose hands they placed the money to give to the workers, for they were dealing honestly.

The money of the guilt offering and the money of the sin offering was not brought into the temple of Yahweh, but were each for the priests.

Then Jehoahaz entreated Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him, for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Aram oppressed them.