2 Kings 11:21
Jehoash Reigns in Judah
21 ▼▼Ch 12:1 in Hebrew
bJehoash ▼▼ Jehoash is an alternate spelling of Joash (son of Ahaziah) as in verse 2
was seven years old when he began to reign. 2 Kings 12:1-15
1In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash ▼▼ Jehoash is an alternate spelling of Joash (son of Ahaziah) as in 11:2; also verses 2, 4, 6, 7, 18
began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba. 2And Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all his days, because Jehoiada the priest instructed him. 3Nevertheless, ethe high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings on the high places. Jehoash Repairs the Temple
4Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things fthat is brought into the house of the Lord, the money for which each man is assessed—the money from the assessment of persons—and gthe money that a man’s heart prompts him to bring into the house of the Lord, 5let the priests take, each from his donor, and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered.” 6But by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had made no repairs on the house. 7Therefore King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and said to them, “Why are you not repairing the house? Now therefore take no more money from your donors, but hand it over for the repair of the house.” 8So the priests agreed that they should take no more money from the people, and that they should not repair the house. 9Then Jehoiada the priest took ha chest and bored a hole in the lid of it and set it beside the altar on the right side as one entered the house of the Lord. And the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord. 10And whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s secretary and the high priest came up and they bagged and counted ithe money that was found in the house of the Lord. 11Then they would give the money that was weighed out into the hands of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of the Lord. And they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the house of the Lord, 12and jto the masons and the stonecutters, as well as to buy timber and quarried stone for making repairs on the house of the Lord, and for any outlay for the repairs of the house. 13 kBut there were not made for the house of the Lord lbasins of silver, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, or any vessels of gold, or of silver, from the money that was brought into the house of the Lord, 14for that was given to the workmen who were repairing the house of the Lord with it. 15And mthey did not ask for an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workmen, for they dealt honestly.
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