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At the end of his life, Josaphat made an alliance between Juda and Israel, under king Ochozias, that reigned very evilly. (2 Chronicles 20, 35)
thou wouldst play the wanton, like the house of Achab, teach the men of Juda and Jerusalem to betray their troth, after Israel’s fashion, and wouldst slay thy brethren, princes of thy own father’s line, better men than thyself. (2 Chronicles 21, 13)
He shared, too, their designs, and marched with the king of Israel, Joram that was son to Achab, against Hazael, king of Syria. They met at Ramoth-Galaad, and there Joram was wounded by the Syrians, (2 Chronicles 22, 5)
He summoned priests and Levites, and bade them go round the cities of Juda, collecting money from all that were of Israel’s race every year, so as to repair the temple of the Lord their God; and this he would have them do with all speed. But the Levites went about their work slowly, (2 Chronicles 24, 5)
and the king must needs send for the high priest Joiada; Why hast thou been at no pains, he asked, to make the Levites collect money throughout Juda and Jerusalem, the same money which the Lord’s servant Moses bade all Israel devote to the needs of the tabernacle?✻ (2 Chronicles 24, 6)
And word went round Juda and Jerusalem that each man was to pay the tax Moses enjoined on all Israel, out in the desert. (2 Chronicles 24, 9)
And for his great services to Israel and to David’s house, they buried him in David’s own Keep, among the kings. (2 Chronicles 24, 16)
To these he added a force of a hundred thousand warriors from Israel, hired for a hundred talents of silver. (2 Chronicles 25, 6)
But now a messenger from God came and told him, My lord king, this force of Israelites must not march with thee; to Israel, to the whole kingdom of Ephraim, the Lord denies his aid. (2 Chronicles 25, 7)
And when Amasias asked what was to become of the hundred talents he had spent on the mercenaries from Israel, the answer came, Worse losses yet the Lord can make good to thee. (2 Chronicles 25, 9)
And now Amasias, upon ill advice taken, sent a challenge to Joas, son of Joachaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, Come, let us have a trial of strength! (2 Chronicles 25, 17)
So Joas, king of Israel, marched out, and they faced one another while Amasias, king of Juda, was still in his own territory, at Bethsames; (2 Chronicles 25, 21)
