2 Kings 12
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1In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beer-sheba.#2Kg 11:2,21; 2Ch 24:1 2Throughout the time the priest Jehoiada#2Kg 11:4,17 instructed#Mal 2:6–7 him, Joash did what was right in the Lord’s sight.#Dt 12:25; 2Sm 8:15 3Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.#1Kg 3:3; 2Kg 14:4; 15:35
Repairing the Temple
4Then#2Ch 24:5–12 Joash said to the priests, “All the dedicated silver brought to the Lord’s temple,#2Kg 22:4 census silver,#Ex 30:13–16 silver from vows,#Lv 27:2–28 and all silver voluntarily given#Ex 35:5 for the Lord’s temple — 5each priest is to take it from his assessor#12:5 Hb obscure and repair whatever damage is found in the temple.”#12:5 Lit repair the breach of the temple wherever there is found a breach#2Kg 22:5
6But by the twenty-third year#2Kg 11:21 of the reign of King Joash, the priests had not repaired the damage#12:6 Lit breach in 2Kg 12:5–12 to the temple.#2Ch 24:5 7So King Joash called the priest Jehoiada#2Kg 11:4–6 and the other priests and asked, “Why haven’t you repaired the temple’s damage? Since you haven’t, don’t take any silver from your assessors; instead, hand it over for the repair of the temple.” 8So the priests agreed that they would receive no silver from the people and would not be the ones to repair the temple’s damage.
9Then the priest Jehoiada took a chest,#2Ch 23:1; 24:8 bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the Lord’s temple; the priests who guarded the threshold put into the chest all the silver that was brought to the Lord’s temple.#Mk 12:41; Lk 21:1 10Whenever they saw there was a large amount of silver in the chest, the king’s secretary#2Sm 8:17; 2Kg 19:2 and the high priest would go bag up and tally the silver found in the Lord’s temple.#2Ch 24:11 11Then they would give the weighed silver to those doing the work — those who oversaw the Lord’s temple. They in turn would pay it out to those working on the Lord’s temple — the carpenters, the builders, 12the masons, and the stonecutters — and would use it to buy timber and quarried stone to repair the damage to the Lord’s temple#2Kg 22:5–6; 2Ch 24:11–12 and for all expenses for temple repairs.
13However, no silver bowls, wick trimmers, sprinkling basins, trumpets, or any articles of gold or silver#1Kg 7:48,50–51; 2Ch 24:14 were made for the Lord’s temple from the contributions#12:13 Lit silver brought to the Lord’s temple. 14Instead, it was given to those doing the work, and they repaired the Lord’s temple with it. 15No accounting was required from the men who received the silver to pay those doing the work, since they worked with integrity.#2Kg 22:7; 2Ch 34:12 16The silver from the guilt offering and the sin offering was not brought to the Lord’s temple since it belonged to the priests.#Lv 4:24,29; 5:15–18; 7:7
Aramean Invasion of Judah
17At that time King Hazael#1Kg 19:17; 2Kg 8:12; 10:32 of Aram marched up and fought against Gath and captured it. Then he planned to attack Jerusalem.#2Ch 24:23–27 18So King Joash of Judah took all the items consecrated by himself and by his ancestors — Judah’s kings Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah — as well as all the gold found in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and in the king’s palace, and he sent them to King Hazael of Aram.#2Kg 16:8; 18:15–16 Then Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.
Joash Assassinated
19The rest of the events of Joash’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings.#1Kg 22:45 20Joash’s servants conspired against him and attacked him#2Kg 14:5 at Beth-millo#Jdg 9:6 on the road that goes down to Silla. 21It was his servants Jozabad#12:21 Some Hb mss, LXX read Jozacar; 2Ch 24:26 reads Zabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer who attacked him. He died#2Ch 24:26 and they buried him with his ancestors in the city of David, and his son Amaziah became king in his place.#2Kg 14:1; 2Ch 24:27
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2 Kings 12
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King Joash of Judah
(2 Chr 24.1–16)
1In the seventh year of the reign of King Jehu of Israel, Joash became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for forty years. His mother was Zibiah from the city of Beersheba. 2Throughout his life he did what pleased the LORD, because Jehoiada the priest instructed him. 3However, the pagan places of worship were not destroyed, and the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.
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Ex 30.11–16
Joash called the priests and ordered them to save up the money paid in connection with the sacrifices in the Temple, both the dues paid for the regular sacrifices and the money given as freewill gifts. 5Each priest was to be responsible for the money brought by those he served, and the money was to be used to repair the Temple, as needed.
6But by the 23rd year of Joash's reign the priests still had not made any repairs to the Temple. 7So he called in Jehoiada and the other priests and asked them, “Why aren't you repairing the Temple? From now on you are not to keep the money you receive; you must hand it over, so that the repairs can be made.” 8The priests agreed to this and also agreed not to make the repairs in the Temple.
9Then Jehoiada took a box, made a hole in the lid, and placed the box by the altar, on the right side as one enters the Temple. The priests on duty at the entrance put in the box all the money given by the worshippers. 10Whenever there was a large amount of money in the box, the royal secretary and the High Priest would come, melt down the silver, and weigh it.#12.10 melt down the silver, and weigh it; or count the money, and tie it up in bags. 11After recording the exact amount, they would hand the silver over to the men in charge of the work in the Temple, and these would pay the carpenters, the builders, 12the masons, and the stonecutters, buy the timber and the stones used in the repairs, and pay all other necessary expenses. 13None of the money, however, was used to pay for making silver cups, bowls, trumpets, or tools for tending the lamps, or any other article of silver or of gold. 14It was all used to pay the workers and to buy the materials used in the repairs. 15#2 Kgs 22.7The men in charge of the work were thoroughly honest, so there was no need to require them to account for the funds. 16#Lev 7.7The money given for the repayment offerings and for the offerings for sin was not deposited in the box; it belonged to the priests.
17At that time King Hazael of Syria attacked the city of Gath and conquered it; then he decided to attack Jerusalem. 18King Joash of Judah took all the offerings that his predecessors Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah had dedicated to the LORD, added to them his own offerings and all the gold in the treasuries of the Temple and the palace, and sent them all as a gift to King Hazael, who then led his army away from Jerusalem.
19Everything else that King Joash did is recorded in The History of the Kings of Judah.
20-21King Joash's officials plotted against him, and two of them, Jozacar son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer, killed him at the house built on the land that was filled in on the east side of Jerusalem, on the road that goes down to Silla. Joash was buried in the royal tombs in David's City, and his son Amaziah succeeded him as king.
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