7. For the wicked woman, Athaliah, and her sons had broken up the house of God, and they had also bestowed all the dedicated things of the house of the Lord upon Baalim.
8. And at the king’s commandment they made an ark and set it outside at the gate of the house of the Lord.
9. And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem to bring in to the Lord the collection that Moses the slave of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.
10. And all the princes and all the people rejoiced and brought in and cast into the ark until they had fulfilled their duty.
11. Now it came to pass, that at what time the ark was brought unto the king’s office by the hand of the Levites and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the high priest’s officer came and emptied the ark and took it and returned it to its place. Thus they did day by day and gathered money in abundance.
12. And the king and Jehoiada gave it to those that did the work of the service of the house of the Lord and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the Lord and also those that wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the Lord.
13. So the workmen wrought, and by their hands the work was done, and they restored the house of God and strengthened it.
14. And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, of which they made vessels for the house of the Lord, vessels to minister and to offer with, and spoons and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the Lord continually all the days of Jehoiada.
15. But Jehoiada waxed old and was full of days when he died; he was one hundred and thirty years old when he died.
16. And they buried him in the city of David among the kings because he had done good in Israel, both toward God and toward his house.
17. Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came and worshipped the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
18. And they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers and served groves and idols, and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for their guilt.
19. Yet he sent prophets to them to bring them again unto the Lord, and they testified against them, but they would not give ear.
20. And the Spirit of God clothed himself in Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada, the priest, who being over the people, said unto them, Thus hath God said, Why do ye transgress the commandments of the Lord? Ye shall not prosper in this; for because ye have forsaken the Lord, he shall also forsake you.
21. And they conspired against him and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the Lord.