12:1 In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.
12:2 Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the years Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
12:3 The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.
12:4 Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money that is brought as sacred offerings to the temple of the LORD–the money collected in the census, the money received from personal vows and the money brought voluntarily to the temple.
12:5 Let every priest receive the money from one of the treasurers, and let it be used to repair whatever damage is found in the temple.”
12:6 But by the twenty-third year of King Joash the priests still had not repaired the temple.
12:7 Therefore King Joash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and asked them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage done to the temple? Take no more money from your treasurers, but hand it over for repairing the temple.”
12:8 The priests agreed that they would not collect any more money from the people and that they would not repair the temple themselves.
12:9 Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid. He placed it beside the altar, on the right side as one enters the temple of the LORD. The priests who guarded the entrance put into the chest all the money that was brought to the temple of the LORD.
12:10 Whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the royal secretary and the high priest came, counted the money that had been brought into the temple of the LORD and put it into bags.
12:11 When the amount had been determined, they gave the money to the men appointed to supervise the work on the temple. With it they paid those who worked on the temple of the LORD–the carpenters and builders,
12:12 the masons and stonecutters. They purchased timber and dressed stone for the repair of the temple of the LORD, and met all the other expenses of restoring the temple.
12:13 The money brought into the temple was not spent for making silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets or any other articles of gold or silver for the temple of the LORD;
12:14 it was paid to the workmen, who used it to repair the temple.
12:15 They did not require an accounting from those to whom they gave the money to pay the workers, because they acted with complete honesty.
12:16 The money from the guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the temple of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.
12:17 About this time Hazael king of Aram went up and attacked Gath and captured it. Then he turned to attack Jerusalem.
12:18 But Joash king of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his fathers–Jehoshaphat, Jehoram and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah–and the gifts he himself had dedicated and all the gold found in the treasuries of the temple of the LORD and of the royal palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram, who then withdrew from Jerusalem.
12:19 As for the other events of the reign of Joash, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
12:20 His officials conspired against him and assassinated him at Beth Millo, on the road down to Silla.
12:21 The officials who murdered him were Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer. He died and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. And Amaziah his son succeeded him as king.
12:1 In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. And his mother s name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
12:2 And Jehoash did what was right in the sight of Jehovah all the days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
12:3 However the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
12:4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the sanctified things which goes into the house of Jehovah ? the money of everyone who passes through the numbering, the money of each person s assessment, and all the money that comes up in the heart of anyone to bring into the house of Jehovah ?
12:5 Let the priests take, each man from his acquaintance; and they shall repair what is broken in the house, wherever anything is found broken.
12:6 But as of the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had not repaired what was broken in the house.
12:7 So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the priests and said to them, Why have you not been repairing what is broken in the house? Now therefore take no more money from your acquaintances, but deliver it for what is broken in the house.
12:8 And the priests agreed that they would neither take money from the people nor repair what was broken in the house.
12:9 Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid, and he put it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of Jehovah. And the priests who guarded the threshold put all the money that came into the house of Jehovah into it.
12:10 And whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the king s scribe and the high priest would go up and bind the money that came into the house of Jehovah in bags and count it.
12:11 And they would give the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of Jehovah; and these would pay it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the house of Jehovah,
12:12 And to the masons and to the stone hewers and for the purchase of timber and hewn stone, to repair what was broken in the house of Jehovah, and for any other outlay to repair the house.
12:13 But there were no cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, or any vessels of gold or any vessels of silver prepared for the house of Jehovah out of the money that was brought into the house of Jehovah;
12:14 For they gave it all to those who did the work, who repaired the house of Jehovah with it.
12:15 And they did not ask for an accounting from the men into whose hands they had given the money to use for doing the work, for these worked faithfully.
12:16 The money from the trespass offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of Jehovah; it was the priests .
12:17 At that time Hazael the king of Syria went up and fought against Gath and took it. And Hazael set his face to go up toward Jerusalem.
12:18 And Jehoash the king of Judah took all the sanctified things which Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers the kings of Judah, had sanctified and his own sanctified things and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of Jehovah and the house of the king; and he sent it to Hazael the king of Syria. And he went up from Jerusalem.
12:19 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?
12:20 And his servants rose up and formed a conspiracy. And they struck Joash down in the house of Millo, on the way that leads down to Silla.
12:21 And it was Jozacar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, who struck him down; and he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the city of David. And Amaziah his son reigned in his place.