“1 In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years
reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name [was] Zibiah of
Beersheba. 2 And Jehoash did [that which was] right in the sight of the
LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him. 3 But the
high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt
incense in the high places.”
“4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated
things that is brought into the house of the LORD, [even] the money of
every one that passeth [the account], the money that every man is set
at, [and] all the money that cometh into any man’s heart to bring into
the house of the LORD, 5 Let the priests take [it] to them, every man of
his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house,
wheresoever any breach shall be found. 6 But it was [so, that] in the
three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired
the breaches of the house. 7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the
priest, and the [other] priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not
the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no [more] money of your
acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house. 8 And the
priests consented to receive no [more] money of the people, neither to
repair the breaches of the house. 9 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 cometh into the house of the LORD: and the
priests that kept the door put therein all the money [that was] brought
into the house of the LORD. 10 And it was [so], when they saw that
[there was] much money in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high
priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was
found in the house of the LORD. 11 And they gave the money, being told,
into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the
house of the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders,
that wrought upon the house of the LORD, 12 And to masons, and hewers of
stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the
house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair
[it]. 13 Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of
silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of
silver, of the money [that was] brought into the house of the LORD: 14
But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of
the LORD. 15 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand
they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt
faithfully. 16 The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the
house of the LORD: 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 And Jehoash
king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram,
and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own
hallowed things, and all the gold [that was] found in the treasures of
the house of the LORD, and in the king’s house, and sent [it] to Hazael
king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem. 19 And the rest of the
acts of Joash, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 20 And his servants arose, and
made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth
down to Silla. 21 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the
son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him
with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in
his stead.” (2 Kings 12:1-21 AV)
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