The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Kings 12
1 Jehoash began to reign in the seventh
year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in
Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah
of Beersheba.
2 Jehoash did that which was right in
Yahweh’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
3 However, the high places were not
taken away. The people still sacrificed and
burned incense in the high places.
4 Jehoash 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,* and all the money that
it comes into any man’s heart to bring into
Yahweh’s house,
5 let 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.”
6 But it was so, that in the twenty-third
year of King Jehoash the priests had not
repaired the damage to the house.
7 Then 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.”
8 The priests consented that they should
take no more money from the people, and
not repair the damage to the house.
9 But 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.
10 When 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.
11 They 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,
12 and 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.
13 But 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;
14 for they gave that to those who did the
work, and repaired Yahweh’s house with
it.
15 Moreover 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.
16 The money for the trespass offerings
andthemoney for the sinofferings wasnot
brought into Yahweh’s house. It was the
priests’.
17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up
and fought against Gath, and took it; and
Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
18 Jehoash 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.
19 Now 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?
20 His servants arose and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of
Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
21 For 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.