2 Kings 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.
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.
