Death of Jehoiada and Joash's Apostasy

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But Iehoiada waxed olde, and was ful of dayes and dyed. An hundreth and thirtie yeere olde was he when he dyed.

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And they buried him in the citie of Dauid with the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.

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And after the death of Iehoiada, came the princes of Iudah, and did reuerence to the King, and the King hearkened vnto them.

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And they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and serued groues and idoles: and wrath came vpon Iudah and Ierusalem, because of this their trespasse.

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And God sent Prophets amog the, to bring them againe vnto the Lord: and they made protestation among them, but they would not heare.

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And the Spirit of God came vpon Zechariah the sonne of Iehoiada the Priest, which stoode aboue the people, and sayde vnto them, Thus sayth God, Why transgresse ye the commandements of the Lord? surely ye shall not prosper: because ye haue forsaken the Lord, he also hath forsaken you.

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Then they conspired against him and stoned him with stones at the commandement of the King, in the court of the house of the Lord.

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Thus Ioash the King remembred not the kindnesse which Iehoiada his father had done to him, but slewe his sonne. And when he dyed, he sayd, The Lord looke vpon it, and require it.

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