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Now when he departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab, coming to meet him; and he greeted him and said to him, "Is your heart right, as my heart is toward your heart?" And Jehonadab answered, "It is." Jehu said, "If it is, give me your hand." So he gave him his hand, and he took him up to him into the chariot.

Then he said, "Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD." So they had him ride in his chariot.

And Jehu said, "Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal." So they proclaimed it.

Then Jehu sent throughout all Israel; and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left who did not come. So they came into the temple [fn] of Baal, and the temple of Baal was full from one end to the other.

And he said to the one in charge of the wardrobe, "Bring out vestments for all the worshipers of Baal." So he brought out vestments for them.

So they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed for himself eighty men on the outside, and had said, "If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escapes, whoever lets him escape, it shall be his life for the life of the other."

So Jehu rested with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. Then Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place.

But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were being murdered; and they hid him and his nurse in the bedroom, from Athaliah, so that he was not killed.

So he was hidden with her in the house of the LORD for six years, while Athaliah reigned over the land.

So the captains of the hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded. Each of them took his men who were to be on duty on the Sabbath, with those who were going off duty on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

When she looked, there was the king standing by a pillar according to custom; and the leaders and the trumpeters were by the king. All the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets. So Athaliah tore her clothes and cried out, "Treason! Treason!"

So they seized her; and she went by way of the horses' entrance into the king's house, and there she was killed.

So all the people of the land rejoiced; and the city was quiet, for they had slain Athaliah with the sword in the king's house.

Now it was so, by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, that the priests had not repaired the damages of the temple.

So King Jehoash called Jehoiada the priest and the other priests, and said to them, "Why have you not repaired the damages of the temple? Now therefore, do not take more money from your constituency, but deliver it for repairing the damages of the temple."

So it was, whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up and put it in bags, and counted the money that was found in the house of the LORD.

21 For Jozachar 2 Chronicles 24:26">[fn] the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, 2 Chronicles 24:26">[fn] his servants, struck him. So he died, and they buried him with his fathers in the City of David. Then Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

So Jehoahaz pleaded with the LORD, and the LORD listened to him; for He saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.

Then the LORD gave Israel a deliverer, so that they escaped from under the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents as before.

So Jehoahaz rested with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. Then Joash his son reigned in his place.