2KI-12:1 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.

2KI-12:2 And Jehoash did [that which was] right in the sight of

the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

2KI-12:3 But the high places were not taken away: the people

still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

2KI-12:4 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,

2KI-12:5 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.

2KI-12:6 But it was [so, that] in the three and twentieth year

of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the

house.

2KI-12:7 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.

2KI-12:8 And the priests consented to receive no [more] money of

the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.

2KI-12:9 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.

2KI-12:10 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.

2KI-12:11 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,

2KI-12:12 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].

2KI-12:13 Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD

bowls of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold,

 or vessels of silver, of the money [that was] brought into the

house of the LORD:

2KI-12:14 But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired

therewith the house of the LORD.

2KI-12:15 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose

hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for

they dealt faithfully.

2KI-12:16 The trespass money and sin money was not brought into

the house of the LORD: it was the priests'.

2KI-12:17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against

Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.

2KI-12:18 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.

2KI-12:19 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?

+2KI-12:20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and

slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.

2KI-12:21 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.

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