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The Restoration of the Portal and the Blood of Zekaryahu
Yoash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Yarushalayim. His mother's name also was Zibyah of Beer-sheba.
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And Yoash did that which was right in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 all the days of Yahuyada the priest.
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And Yahuyada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.
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The Decree to Repair the Sanctuary
And it came to pass after this, that Yoash was minded to repair the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
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And he gathered together the priests and the Lawiytes, and said to them, "Go out unto the cities of Yahudah, and gather of all Yashar'al money to repair the house of your Alahiym from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter." Howbeit the Lawiytes hastened it not.
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The Invocation of the Mosaic Levy
And the king called for Yahuyada the chief, and said unto him, "Why hast thou not required of the Lawiytes to bring in out of Yahudah and out of Yarushalayim the collection, according to the commandment of Mushah the servant of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and of the congregation of Yashar'al, for the tabernacle of witness?"
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The Athaliah Defilement Exposed
For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of Alahiym; and also all the dedicated things of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 did they bestow upon Baalim.
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The Collection Protocol
And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
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And they made a proclamation through Yahudah and Yarushalayim, to bring in to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 the collection that Mushah the servant of Alahiym laid upon Yashar'al in the wilderness.
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And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
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The Abundance of the Restoration Frequency
Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king's office by the hand of the Lawiytes, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
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And the king and Yahuyada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
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So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of Alahiym in his state, and strengthened it.
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The Manufacture of the Pure Vessels
And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Yahuyada, whereof were made vessels for the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, even vessels to minister, and to offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 continually all the days of Yahuyada.
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The Ascension of the High Priest
But Yahuyada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; a hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
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The Royal Burial of the Priest
And they buried him in the city of Dawid among the kings, because he had done good in Yashar'al, both toward Alahiym, and toward His house.
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The Breach of the Portal Shield
Now after the death of Yahuyada came the princes of Yahudah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
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The Return of the Asharim Frequencies
And they left the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Alahiym of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Yahudah and Yarushalayim for this their trespass.
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The Ignored Prophetic Warnings
Yet He sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.
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The Prophetic Indictment by Zekaryahu
And the Ruach of Alahiym came upon Zekaryahu the son of Yahuyada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, "Thus saith Alahiym, Why transgress ye the commandments of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, He hath also forsaken you."
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The Martyrdom at the Altar
And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
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The Cry for Celestial Vengeance
Thus Yoash the king remembered not the kindness which Yahuyada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, "𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 look upon it, and require it."
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The Judicial Strike of the Aramean Matrix
And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Aram came up against him: and they came to Yahudah and Yarushalayim, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Darmasaq.
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The Disproportionate Override
For the army of Aram came with a small company of men, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Alahiym of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Yoash.
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The Biological and Terrestrial Termination
And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Yahuyada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of Dawid, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
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The Mixed-Seed Conspirators
And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Yahozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.
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The Midrash of the Kings
Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the repairing of the house of Alahiym, behold, they are written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amasyahu his son reigned in his stead.