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II Kings
Chapter 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 Jehovah/God all his days
wherein
Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
3
But the high places
{where idol worship of the Phallic Cult was practiced}
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 Jehovah/God,
even
the money of every one that passes the account,
the
money that every man is set at,
and
all the money that comes into any man's heart/'right lobe'
to
bring into the house of Jehovah/God, 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 you 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 comes
into
the house of Jehovah/God
and
the priests that kept the door
put
therein all the money
that
was brought into the house of Jehovah/God.
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 Jehovah/God.
11
And they gave the money, being told,
into
the hands of those who did the work,
that
had the oversight of the house of Jehovah/God
and
they laid it out to the carpenters and builders,
who
wrought upon the house of Jehovah/God,
12
And to masons, and hewers of stone,
and
to buy timber and hewed stone
to
repair the breaches of the house of Jehovah/God,
and
for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
13
Howbeit there were not made for the house of Jehovah/God
bowls
of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold,
or
vessels of silver, of the money that was brought
into
the house of Jehovah/God 14
but
they gave that to the workmen,
and
repaired therewith the house of Jehovah/God.
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 Jehovah/God.
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 Jehovah/God,
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
goes 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 place/stead.
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