2 Kings Chapter 12 Back Next{12:1} In the seventh year of
Jehu began
Jehoash to reign; and he reigned forty years in
Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah of
Beersheba.
{12:2} Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all his days in which
Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
{12:3} However the
high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt
incense in the high places.
{12:4} Jehoash said to the priests, "All the money of the holy things that is brought into the house of Yahweh, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it comes into any man's
heart to bring into the house of Yahweh,
{12:5} let the priests take it to them, every man from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the
breaches of the house, wherever any breach shall be found."
{12:6} But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
{12:7} Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, "Why don't you repair the breaches of the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for the breaches of the house."
{12:8} The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.
{12:9} But Jehoiada the priest took a
chest, and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the
altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of Yahweh: and the priests who kept the threshold put therein all the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh.
{12:10} It was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the
high priest came up, and they put up in
bags and counted the money that was found in the house of Yahweh.
{12:11} They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of Yahweh: and they paid it out to the
carpenters and the builders, who worked on the house of Yahweh,
{12:12} and to the
masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the breaches of the house of Yahweh, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
{12:13} But there were not made for the house of Yahweh
cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of
gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh;
{12:14} for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired therewith the house of Yahweh.
{12:15} Moreover they didn't demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt
faithfully.
{12:16} The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for the sin offerings, was not brought into the house of Yahweh: it was the priests'.
{12:17} Then
Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against
Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
{12:18} Jehoash king of
Judah took all the holy things that
Jehoshaphat and
Jehoram and
Ahaziah, his
fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and of the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
{12:19} Now the rest of the acts of
Joash, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
{12:20} His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of
Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
{12:21} For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and
Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of
David: and
Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
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