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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 the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada
the priest instructed him. |
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3 | But the high places were not taken
away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
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| 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, |
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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.
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| 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. |
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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: |
| 14 | But they gave that to the workmen, and
repaired therewith the house of the LORD. |
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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'.
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| 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. |
