SECOND
KINGS
2 Kings Chapter 12
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¶ Joash began to reign during the seventh year of Jehu’s reign; and he
reigned for forty years in
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And Joash did what was right in the sight of the LORD all his days
because Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
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But the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burnt
incense in the high places.
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¶ And Joash said to the priests, All the money for the holy things that is
brought into the house of the LORD, the money which each man is assessed in
payment of vows, and all the money that any man brings voluntarily to
the house of the LORD,
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Let each priest take it from his patronage: and let them repair the
damage to the house, wherever such damage is found.
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But in the twenty-third year of king Joash the priests had not repaired the
damage of the house.
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Then king Joash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests,
and asked them, Why have you not repaired the damage to the house? now do not
accept any more money from your patronage, but turn it all over for the
repair of the house.
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And the priests agreed to receive no more money from the people, nor to
be responsible for repairing the damage to the house.
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But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and
set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of the
LORD: and the priests who kept the door put all the money that was
brought into the house of the LORD into it.
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And when they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s
scribe and the high priest came up and counted the money that was found in the
house of the LORD, and put it in bags.
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And they gave the money, by weight, to those who supervised the work on the
house of the LORD: and they distributed to the carpenters and builders, who
worked on the house of the LORD,
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And to masons, and stonecutters, and to buy timber and cut stone to repair the
damage to the house of the LORD, and for all that was paid out for repairs to
the house.
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However there were no bowls of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, vessels of
gold, or vessels of silver made for the house of the LORD, from the money that
was brought into the house of the LORD:
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But they gave it to the workmen, and with it repaired the house of the LORD.
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Moreover they did not require any accounting from the men, to whom they gave
the money to be paid to the workmen: for they were honest.
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But the money from the guilt and sin offerings was not brought into the house
of the LORD: it was the priests’.
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¶ Then Hazael the king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and captured
it: and he was determined to attack Jerusalem.
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And Joash the king of Judah took all the consecrated things that his ancestors
Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own
consecrated things, and all the gold that was found in the store rooms
of the house of the LORD, and the king’s palace, and sent it to Hazael
king of Syria: who then went away from Jerusalem.
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Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not
written in the book of the records of the kings of Judah?
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And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and killed Joash in the house of
Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
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It was Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his
servants, who killed him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in
the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.