Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
King jehoash
Why repair ye
Bible References
King jehoash
2 Chronicles 24:5
And upon that he gathered together the priests and the Levites and said to them, "Go out through the cities of Judah and gather of all Israel silver, to strengthen the house of your God, year by year, and see that ye haste the thing." Howbeit, the Levites were slack.
Jehoiada
2 Kings 12:2
And he did that pleased the LORD, as long as Jehoiada the Priest informed him.
2 Kings 11:4
And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds with the captains and them of the guard, and took them into him into the house of the LORD, and made a bond with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and showed them the king's son.
2 Chronicles 23:1
And in the seventh year Jehoiada took heart, and made a bond with the captains of hundreds: Azariah the son of Jehoram, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah and Elishaphat the son of Zichri.
2 Chronicles 24:16
And they buried him in the city of David among the kings because he had done good in Israel, and on God and on his house.
Why repair ye
1 Chronicles 21:3
And Joab answered, "The LORD make thy people a hundred times so many more as they be. But my lord king, are they not all my lord's servants? Why then doth my lord require this thing? Why should my lord be a cause of trespass to Israel?"