2 Kings 12
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1In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king and reigned 40 years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, who was from Beer-sheba. # 2Kg 11:2,21; 2Ch 24:1 2Throughout the time Jehoiada # 2Kg 11:4,17 the priest 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 money brought to the Lord’s temple, # 2Kg 22:4 census money, # Ex 30:13-16 money from vows, # Lv 27:2-28 and all money voluntarily given # Ex 35:5 for the Lord’s temple, 5each priest is to take from his assessor # Hb obscure and repair whatever damage to the temple is found.” # Lit repair the breach of the house 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 # Lit breach in 2Kg 12:5-12 to the temple. # 2Ch 24:5 7So King Joash called Jehoiada # 2Kg 11:4-6 the priest and the other priests and said, “Why haven’t you repaired the temple’s damage? Since you haven’t, don’t take any money from your assessors; instead, hand it over for the repair of the temple.” 8So the priests agreed they would not take money from the people and they would not repair the temple’s damage.
9Then Jehoiada the priest 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; in it the priests who guarded the threshold put all the money brought into the Lord’s temple. # Mk 12:41; Lk 21:1 10Whenever they saw there was a large amount of money in the chest, the king’s secretary # 2Sm 8:17; 2Kg 19:2 and the high priest would go to the Lord’s temple and count the money found there and tie it up in bags. # 2Ch 24:11 11Then they would put the counted money into the hands of 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 spending 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 money brought into the 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 money to pay those doing the work, since they worked with integrity. # 2Kg 22:7; 2Ch 34:12 16The money from the restitution 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 Hazael # 1Kg 19:17; 2Kg 8:12; 10:32 king 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 consecrated items that his ancestors — Judah’s kings Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah — had consecrated, along with his own consecrated items and all the gold found in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and in the king’s palace, and he sent them to Hazael king 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 killed him # 2Kg 14:5 at Beth-millo # Jdg 9:6 on the road that goes down to Silla. 21His servants Jozabad # Some Hb mss, LXX read Jozacar ; 2Ch 24:26 reads Zabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer struck him down, and he died. # 2Ch 24:26 Then they buried him with his fathers 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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1Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba. 2Jehoash did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. 3However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
4Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into Yahweh’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated,#Exodus 30:12 and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into Yahweh’s house, 5let the priests take it to them, each man from his donor; and they shall repair the damage to the house, wherever any damage is found.”
6But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house. 7Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage to the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the damage to the house.”
8The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house. 9But 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 Yahweh’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house into it. 10When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put it in bags and counted the money that was found in Yahweh’s house. 11They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on Yahweh’s house, 12and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to Yahweh’s house, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it. 13But there were not made for Yahweh’s house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house; 14for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired Yahweh’s house with it. 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. 16The money for the trespass offerings and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into Yahweh’s house. It was the priests’.
17Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem. 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 Yahweh’s house, and of the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem.
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? 20His servants arose and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla. 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 David’s city; and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
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