2 Kings 12

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Joash Repairs the Temple

¹In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash^a became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.

¹In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king. And forty years he reigned in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Zibiah of Beersheba.

²And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days he was instructed by Jehoiada the priest.

²And Jehoash did right in the eyes of YHWH all the days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

³Nevertheless, the high places were not removed; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.

³But the high places were not taken away; still the people sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

⁴Then Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money brought as sacred gifts into the house of the LORD—the census money, the money from vows, and the money brought voluntarily into the house of the LORD.

⁴And Jehoash said to the priests, “All the silver of the holy things that are brought into the house of YHWH, the silver of passing over of each man, the silver of his valuation assessment, and all the silver that a man purposes in his heart to bring into the house of YHWH,

⁵Let every priest receive it from his constituency, and let it be used to repair any damage found in the temple.”

⁵let the priests take it unto themselves, each from his constituency, and they shall strengthen the breach of the house in every place where there is found a breach.”

⁶By the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash, however, the priests had not yet repaired the damage to the temple.

⁶And it was by the twentieth year and third year of King Jehoash, that the priests had not strengthened the breach of the house.

⁷So King Joash called Jehoiada and the other priests and said, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, therefore, take no more money from your constituency, but hand it over for the repair of the temple.”

⁷And King Jehoash called to Jehoiada the priest, and to the priests, and he said to them, “Why have you not strengthened the breach of the house? And now take no more silver from your constituency, but for the breach of the house give it.”

⁸So the priests agreed that they would not receive money from the people and that they would not repair the temple themselves.

⁸And the priests agreed to receive no more silver from the people, nor to strengthen the breach of the house.

⁹Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the house of the LORD. There the priests who guarded the threshold put all the money brought into the house of the LORD.

⁹And Jehoiada the priest took one 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 YHWH. And the priests who kept the door put there all the silver brought into the house of YHWH.

¹⁰Whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the royal scribe and the high priest would go up, count the money brought into the house of the LORD, and tie it up in bags.

¹⁰And it was, at their seeing that there was much silver in the chest, that came up a scribe of the king and the high priest, and they bound it up and counted the silver found in the house of YHWH.

¹¹Then they would put the counted money into the hands of those who supervised the work on the house of the LORD, who in turn would pay those doing the work—the carpenters, builders,

¹¹And they gave the weighed silver into the hands of those who did the work, those inspecting the house of YHWH, and they paid it out to the carpenters and to the builders making the house of YHWH,

¹²masons, and stonecutters. They also purchased timber and dressed stone to repair the damage to the house of the LORD, and they paid the other expenses of the temple repairs.

¹²and to the masons, and to hewers of stone, and for buying timber and hewn stone to strengthen the breach of the house of YHWH, and for all that went out upon the temple to strengthen it.

¹³However, the money brought into the house of the LORD was not used for making silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets, or any articles of gold or silver for the house of the LORD.

¹³However, there were not made for the house of YHWH basins of silver, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets, or any articles of gold or articles of silver, from the silver brought into the house of YHWH;

¹⁴Instead, it was paid to those doing the work, and with it they repaired the house of the LORD.

¹⁴but they gave to those doing the work, and they strengthened with it the house of YHWH.

¹⁵No accounting was required from the men who received the money to pay the workmen, because they acted with integrity.

¹⁵And they did not require an account with the men whom into their hands they delivered the silver to be paid to those doing the work, for in faithfulness they were acting.

¹⁶The money from the guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.

¹⁶The silver from the guilt offerings and the silver from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of YHWH; to the priests it belonged.

The Death of Joash

¹⁷At that time Hazael king of Aram marched up and fought against Gath and captured it. Then he decided to attack Jerusalem.

¹⁷Then went up Hazael king of Aram and fought against Gath and captured it. And Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem.

¹⁸So King Joash of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his fathers—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—along with his own consecrated items and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram. So Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.

¹⁸And Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat, and Joram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred things, and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of YHWH and in the house of the king. And he sent them to Hazael king of Aram. And he went up from Jerusalem.

¹⁹As for the rest of the acts of Joash, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

¹⁹And the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Words of the Days of the Kings of Judah?

²⁰And the servants of Joash rose up and formed a conspiracy and killed him at Beth-millo, on the road down to Silla.

²⁰And his servants arose and formed a conspiracy, and they killed Joash at Beth-millo, which goes down to Silla.

²¹His servants Jozabad^a son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer^b struck him down, and he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the City of David, and his son Amaziah reigned in his place.

²¹For Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer, his servants, struck him down, and he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the City of David, and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.