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2 Samuel 12:13 (NIV)
Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord .” Nathan replied, “The Lord has taken away your sin. You are not going to die.
2 Samuel 12:14 (NIV)
But because by doing this you have shown utter contempt for the Lord , the son born to you will die.”
2 Samuel 12:15 (NIV)
After Nathan had gone home, the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.
2 Samuel 12:16 (NIV)
David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and spent the nights lying in sackcloth on the ground.
2 Samuel 12:17 (NIV)
The elders of his household stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he refused, and he would not eat any food with them.
2 Samuel 12:18 (NIV)
On the seventh day the child died. David’s attendants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, “While the child was still living, he wouldn’t listen to us when we spoke to him. How can we now tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate.”
2 Samuel 12:19 (NIV)
David noticed that his attendants were whispering among themselves, and he realized the child was dead. “Is the child dead?” he asked. “Yes,” they replied, “he is dead.”
2 Samuel 12:30 (NIV)
David took the crown from their king’s head, and it was placed on his own head. It weighed a talent of gold, and it was set with precious stones. David took a great quantity of plunder from the city
2 Samuel 12:31 (NIV)
and brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws and with iron picks and axes, and he made them work at brickmaking. David did this to all the Ammonite towns. Then he and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.
2 Kings 12:1 (NIV)
In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.
2 Kings 12:3 (NIV)
The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.
2 Kings 12:4 (NIV)
Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money that is brought as sacred offerings to the temple of the Lord —the money collected in the census, the money received from personal vows and the money brought voluntarily to the temple.
2 Kings 12:5 (NIV)
Let every priest receive the money from one of the treasurers, then use it to repair whatever damage is found in the temple.”
2 Kings 12:6 (NIV)
But by the twenty-third year of King Joash the priests still had not repaired the temple.
2 Kings 12:7 (NIV)
Therefore King Joash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and asked them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage done to the temple? Take no more money from your treasurers, but hand it over for repairing the temple.”
2 Kings 12:8 (NIV)
The priests agreed that they would not collect any more money from the people and that they would not repair the temple themselves.
2 Kings 12:9 (NIV)
Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid. He placed it beside the altar, on the right side as one enters the temple of the Lord . The priests who guarded the entrance put into the chest all the money that was brought to the temple of the Lord .
2 Kings 12:10 (NIV)
Whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the royal secretary and the high priest came, counted the money that had been brought into the temple of the Lord and put it into bags.
2 Kings 12:11 (NIV)
When the amount had been determined, they gave the money to the men appointed to supervise the work on the temple. With it they paid those who worked on the temple of the Lord —the carpenters and builders,
2 Kings 12:12 (NIV)
the masons and stonecutters. They purchased timber and blocks of dressed stone for the repair of the temple of the Lord , and met all the other expenses of restoring the temple.
2 Kings 12:13 (NIV)
The money brought into the temple was not spent for making silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets or any other articles of gold or silver for the temple of the Lord ;
2 Kings 12:14 (NIV)
it was paid to the workers, who used it to repair the temple.
2 Kings 12:15 (NIV)
They did not require an accounting from those to whom they gave the money to pay the workers, because they acted with complete honesty.
2 Kings 12:16 (NIV)
The money from the guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the temple of the Lord ; it belonged to the priests.
2 Kings 12:17 (NIV)
About this time Hazael king of Aram went up and attacked Gath and captured it. Then he turned to attack Jerusalem.