The Second Book of Kings (WEB)
12: 1In 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. 12:2Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of
Yahweh all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. 12:3However the high places were
not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. 12:4Jehoash 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, 12:5let 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. 12:6But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not
repaired the breaches of the house. 12:7Then 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 acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house. 12:8The
priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, neither repair the
breaches of the house. 12:9But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, 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. 12:10It
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. 12:11They 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, 12:12and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for
buying timber and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the house of Yahweh, and for all that was
laid out for the house to repair it. 12:13But 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; 12:14for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired
therewith the house of Yahweh. 12:15Moreover 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.
12:16The money for the trespass-offerings, and the money for the sin-offerings, was not brought into
the house of Yahweh: it was the priests'. 12:17Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against
Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem. 12:18Jehoash 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. 12:19Now 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? 12:20His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck
Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla. 12:21For 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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