14 And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the silver before the king and Jehoiada, and he made thereof [a]vessels for the house of the Lord, even vessels to minister, both mortars and incense cups, and vessels of gold, and of 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, and died. An hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.

16 And they buried him in the city of David with the [b]kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 24:14 For the wicked kings his predecessors, and Athaliah had destroyed the vessels of the Temple, or turned them to the use of their idols.
  2. 2 Chronicles 24:16 Signifying that they could not honor him too much, who had so excellently served in the work of the Lord, and in the affairs of the commonwealth.

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