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1 Jehoash began to
reign in the
seventh year
of Jehu, and he
reigned forty years
in Jerusalem. His mother’s name
was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2 Jehoash
did that which
was right in the
LORD’s eyes all his
days in which Jehoiada
the priest instructed him.
3 However, the
high places were
not taken away.
The people still
sacrificed and burned incense
in the high
places.
4 Jehoash said
to the priests, “All
the money of
the holy things
that is brought
into the LORD’s
house, in current money, the money
of the people
for whom each man
is evaluated,
and all the money
that it comes into
any man’s heart to bring
into the LORD’s
house,
5 let
the priests take
it to them,
each man from
his donor; and
they shall repair
the damage to the
house, wherever
any damage is
found.”
6 But
it was so,
that in
the twenty-third year of King
Jehoash the priests
had not repaired
the damage to the
house.
7 Then
King Jehoash called
for Jehoiada the
priest, and for
the other priests,
and said to them,
“Why aren’t you
repairing the damage
to the house?
Now therefore take
no more money from
your treasurers, but deliver
it for repair
of the damage to
the house.”
8 The
priests consented that
they should take
no more money
from the people,
and not repair
the damage to the
house.
9 But Jehoiada
the priest took
a chest and bored
a hole in its lid,
and set it beside
the altar, on
the right side as
one comes into the
LORD’s house; and
the priests
who kept the threshold
put all the
money that was
brought into the
LORD’s house into
it.
10 When
they saw that
there was much
money in the chest,
the king’s scribe and
the high priest
came up, and
they put it
in bags and counted
the money that
was found in
the LORD’s house.
11 They
gave the money
that was weighed
out into the hands
of those who
did the work, who
had the oversight
of the LORD’s
house; and
they paid it out
to the carpenters
and the builders
who worked on
the LORD’s house,
12 and
to the masons
and the stone cutters,
and for buying
timber and cut stone
to repair the
damage to the
LORD’s house, and
for all that
was laid out
for the house
to repair it.
13 But
there were not
made for the
LORD’s house cups
of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets,
any vessels of gold
or vessels of silver,
of the money that
was brought into
the LORD’s house;
14 for
they gave that
to those who
did the work,
and repaired the
LORD’s house with
it.
15 Moreover
they didn’t demand an accounting
from the men
into whose hand
they delivered
the money to give
to those who
did the work;
for they
dealt faithfully.
16 The
money for
the trespass offerings
and the money
for the sin
offerings was not
brought into the
LORD’s house. 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 Jehoash
king of Judah took
all the holy things
that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram
and Ahaziah, his fathers,
kings of Judah,
had dedicated, and
his own holy things,
and all the gold
that was found in
the treasures of
the LORD’s house,
and of the
king’s house, and
sent it to
Hazael king
of Syria; and he
went away from
Jerusalem.
19 Now
the rest of
the acts of Joash,
and all that
he did, aren’t
they written in
the book of
the chronicles of
the kings of
Judah?
20 His servants
arose and made
a conspiracy, and struck
Joash at the house
of Millo, on the
way that goes down
to Silla.
21 For Jozacar
the son of Shimeath,
and Jehozabad the son
of Shomer, his
servants, struck
him, and he died;
and they buried
him with
his fathers in David’s city;
and Amaziah his son reigned
in his place.