2 Chronicles 24:17

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After Jehoiada died, the officials of Judah visited the king and declared their loyalty to him. The king listened to their advice.

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  • Deut 31:27 : 27 for I know about your rebellion and stubbornness. Indeed, even while I have been living among you to this very day, you have rebelled against the LORD; you will be even more rebellious after my death!
  • 2 Chr 10:8-9 : 8 But Rehoboam rejected their advice and consulted the young advisers who served him, with whom he had grown up. 9 He asked them,“How do you advise me to respond to these people who said to me,‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?” 10 The young advisers with whom Rehoboam had grown up said to him,“Say this to these people who have said to you,‘Your father made us work hard, but now lighten our burden’– say this to them:‘I am a lot harsher than my father!
  • 2 Chr 22:3-4 : 3 He followed in the footsteps of Ahab’s dynasty, for his mother gave him evil advice. 4 He did evil in the sight of the LORD like Ahab’s dynasty because, after his father’s death, they gave him advice that led to his destruction.
  • Prov 7:21-23 : 21 She turned him aside with her persuasions; with her smooth talk she was enticing him along. 22 Suddenly he was going after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper’s snare 23 till an arrow pierces his liver– like a bird hurrying into a trap, and he does not know that it will cost him his life.
  • Prov 20:19 : 19 The one who goes about gossiping reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with someone who is always opening his mouth.
  • Prov 26:8 : 8 Like tying a stone in a sling, so is giving honor to a fool.
  • Prov 26:28 : 28 A lying tongue hates those crushed by it, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
  • Prov 29:5 : 5 The one who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.
  • Prov 29:12 : 12 If a ruler listens to lies, all his ministers will be wicked.
  • Dan 11:32 : 32 Then with smooth words he will defile those who have rejected the covenant. But the people who are loyal to their God will act valiantly.
  • Acts 20:29-30 : 29 I know that after I am gone fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.
  • 2 Pet 1:15 : 15 Indeed, I will also make every effort that, after my departure, you have a testimony of these things.

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  • 2 Chr 24:14-16
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    14When they were finished, they brought the rest of the silver to the king and Jehoiada. They used it to make items for the LORD’s temple, including items used in the temple service and for burnt sacrifices, pans, and various other gold and silver items. Throughout Jehoiada’s lifetime, burnt sacrifices were offered regularly in the LORD’s temple.

    15Jehoiada grew old and died at the age of 130.

    16He was buried in the City of David with the kings, because he had accomplished good in Israel and for God and his temple.

  • 2 Chr 24:18
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    18They abandoned the temple of the LORD God of their ancestors, and worshiped the Asherah poles and idols. Because of this sinful activity, God was angry with Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 11:16-17
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    16They seized her and took her into the precincts of the royal palace through the horses’ entrance. There she was executed.

    17Jehoiada then drew up a covenant between the LORD and the king and people, stipulating that they should be loyal to the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 24:21-23
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    21They plotted against him and by royal decree stoned him to death in the courtyard of the LORD’s temple.

    22King Joash disregarded the loyalty his father Jehoiada had shown him and killed Jehoiada’s son. As Zechariah was dying, he said,“May the LORD take notice and seek vengeance!”

    23At the beginning of the year the Syrian army attacked Joash and invaded Judah and Jerusalem. They wiped out all the leaders of the people and sent all the plunder they gathered to the king of Damascus.

  • 2 Chr 23:15-17
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    15They seized her and took her into the precincts of the royal palace through the horses’ entrance. There they executed her.

    16Jehoiada then drew up a covenant stipulating that he, all the people, and the king should be loyal to the LORD.

    17All the people went and demolished the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols. They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.

  • 2 Chr 24:25
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    25When they withdrew, they left Joash badly wounded. His servants plotted against him because of what he had done to the son of Jehoiada the priest. They murdered him on his bed. Thus he died and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

  • 2 Chr 23:1
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    1In the seventh year Jehoiada made a bold move. He made a pact with the officers of the units of hundreds: Azariah son of Jehoram, Ishmael son of Jehochanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zikri.

  • 2 Chr 23:11-12
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    11Jehoiada and his sons led out the king’s son and placed on him the crown and the royal insignia. They proclaimed him king and poured olive oil on his head. They declared,“Long live the king!”

    12When Athaliah heard the royal guard shouting and praising the king, she joined the crowd at the LORD’s temple.

  • 2 Chr 20:18
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    18Jehoshaphat bowed down with his face toward the ground, and all the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem fell down before the LORD and worshiped him.

  • 2 Chr 24:2-4
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    2Joash did what the LORD approved throughout the lifetime of Jehoiada the priest.

    3Jehoiada chose two wives for him who gave him sons and daughters.

    4Later, Joash was determined to repair the LORD’s temple.

  • 2 Kgs 23:1-2
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    1The King Institutes Religious Reform The king summoned all the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem.

    2The king went up to the LORD’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, all the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the prophets. All the people were there, from the youngest to the oldest. He read aloud all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the LORD’s temple.

  • 2 Chr 29:29-30
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    29When the sacrifices were completed, the king and all who were with him bowed down and worshiped.

    30King Hezekiah and the officials told the Levites to praise the LORD, using the psalms of David and Asaph the prophet. So they joyfully offered praise and bowed down and worshiped.

  • 2 Kgs 24:6
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    6He passed away and his son Jehoiachin replaced him as king.

  • 2 Chr 23:20
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    20He summoned the officers of the units of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people, and all the people of the land, and he then led the king down from the LORD’s temple. They entered the royal palace through the Upper Gate and seated the king on the royal throne.

  • 2 Chr 34:29
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    29The king summoned all the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 24:6-7
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    6So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest, and said to him,“Why have you not made the Levites collect from Judah and Jerusalem the tax authorized by Moses the LORD’s servant and by the assembly of Israel at the tent containing the tablets of the law?”

    7(Wicked Athaliah and her sons had broken into God’s temple and used all the holy items of the LORD’s temple in their worship of the Baals.)

  • 2 Kgs 11:4
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    4In the seventh year Jehoiada summoned the officers of the units of hundreds of the Carians and the royal bodyguard. He met with them in the LORD’s temple. He made an agreement with them and made them swear an oath of allegiance in the LORD’s temple. Then he showed them the king’s son.

  • Jer 26:10
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    10However, some of the officials of Judah heard about what was happening and they rushed up to the LORD’s temple from the royal palace. They set up court at the entrance of the New Gate of the LORD’s temple.

  • 2 Kgs 23:30
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    30His servants transported his dead body from Megiddo in a chariot and brought it to Jerusalem, where they buried him in his tomb. The people of the land took Josiah’s son Jehoahaz, poured olive oil on his head, and made him king in his father’s place.

  • 2 Chr 22:8
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    8While Jehu was dishing out punishment to Ahab’s family, he discovered the officials of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s relatives who were serving Ahaziah and killed them.

  • 2 Kgs 22:18
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    18Say this to the king of Judah, who sent you to seek an oracle from the LORD:“This is what the LORD God of Israel has said concerning the words you have heard:

  • 2 Kgs 1:17
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    17And he did die in keeping with the LORD’s message that he had spoken through Elijah. In the second year of the reign of King Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat over Judah, Ahaziah’s brother Jehoram replaced him as king of Israel, because he had no son.

  • 2 Chr 34:26
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    26Say this to the king of Judah, who sent you to seek an oracle from the LORD:“This is what the LORD God of Israel says concerning the words you have heard:

  • 2 Kgs 7:17
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    17Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate. This fulfilled the prophet’s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him.

  • 2 Kgs 11:9
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    9The officers of the units of hundreds did just as Jehoiada the priest ordered. Each of them took his men, those who were on duty during the Sabbath as well as those who were off duty on the Sabbath, and reported to Jehoiada the priest.

  • 1 Sam 22:17
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    17Then the king said to the messengers who were stationed beside him,“Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, for they too have sided with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm the priests of the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 23:17
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    17He asked,“What is this grave marker I see?” The men from the city replied,“It’s the grave of the prophet who came from Judah and foretold these very things you have done to the altar of Bethel.”

  • 2 Chr 35:24
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    24So his servants took him out of the chariot, put him in another chariot that he owned, and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died. He was buried in the tombs of his ancestors; all the people of Judah and Jerusalem mourned Josiah.

  • 2 Chr 21:1
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    1Jehoshaphat passed away and was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. His son Jehoram replaced him as king.

  • Jer 22:1
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    1The LORD told me,“Go down to the palace of the king of Judah. Give him a message from me there.

  • 2 Chr 36:1
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    1Jehoahaz’s Reign The people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem.

  • Jer 17:20
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    20And then announce to them,‘Listen to the LORD’s message, you kings of Judah, and everyone from Judah, and all you citizens of Jerusalem, those who pass through these gates.

  • 1 Kgs 12:27
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    27If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the LORD’s temple in Jerusalem, their loyalty could shift to their former master, King Rehoboam of Judah. They might kill me and return to King Rehoboam of Judah.”

  • 2 Chr 23:3
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    3and the whole assembly made a covenant with the king in the temple of God. Jehoiada said to them,“The king’s son will rule, just as the LORD promised David’s descendants.

  • 2 Chr 11:16
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    16Those among all the Israelite tribes who were determined to worship the LORD God of Israel followed them to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD God of their ancestors.

  • 2 Kgs 11:13
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    13When Athaliah heard the royal guard shout, she joined the crowd at the LORD’s temple.

  • 2 Chr 22:1
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    1Ahaziah’s Reign The residents of Jerusalem made his youngest son Ahaziah king in his place, for the raiding party that invaded the camp with the Arabs had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.