II Kings Chapter 12

II Kings Chapter 12
1 In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash
began to reign, and reigned forty years in
Jerusalem, and his mother's name was
Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
2 And Jehoash did that which was good
in the sight of the Lord all his time that
Jehoiada the priest taught him.
3 But the high places were not taken
away: for the people offered yet and
burned incense in the high places.
4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the
silver of dedicate things that be brought
to the house of the Lord, that is, the
money of them that are under the count,
the money that every man is set at, and
all the money that one offereth willingly,
and bringeth into the house of the Lord,
5 Let the priests take it to them, every
man of his acquaintance: and they shall
repair the broken places of the house,
wheresoever any decay is found. 6 Yet
in the three and twentieth year of king
Jehoash the priests had not mended that
which was decayed in the temple.
7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada
the priest, and the other priests, and said
unto them, Why repair ye not the ruins of
the temple? Now therefore receive no
more money of your acquaintance,
except ye deliver it to repair the ruins of
the temple.
8 So the priests consented to receive no
more money of the people, neither to
repair the decayed places of the temple.
9 Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest
and bored an hole in the lid of it, and set
it beside the altar, on the right side, as
every man cometh into the temple 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 when they saw there was much
money in the chest, the king's secretary
came up and the high priest, and put it up
after that they had told the money that
was found in the house of the Lord,
11 And they gave the money made ready
into the hands of them, that undertook the
work, and that had the oversight of the
house of the Lord; and they paid it out to
the carpenters and builders that wrought
upon the house of the Lord,
12 And to the masons and hewers of
stone, and to buy timber and hewed
stone, to repair that was decayed in the
house of the Lord, and for all that which
was laid out for the reparation of the
temple.
13 Howbeit there was not made for the
house of the Lord bowls of silver,
instruments of music, basins, trumpets,
nor any vessels of gold, or vessels of
silver of the money that was brought into
the house of the Lord. 14 But they gave it
to the workmen, which repaired
therewith the house of the Lord.
15 Moreover, they reckoned not with the
men, into whose hands they delivered
that money to be bestowed on workmen:
for they dealt faithfully. 16 The money of
the trespass offering and the money of
the sin offerings was not brought into the
house of the Lord: for it was the priests.
17 Then came up Hazael king of Aram
[Syria], 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 father's
kings of Judah had dedicated, and that he
himself had dedicated, 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 Aram
[Syria], and he departed from Jerusalem.
19 Concerning 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 wrought
treason, and slew Joash in the house of
Millo, when he came down to Silla:
21 Even 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.