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The twenty-third year of King Joas came, and still the priests had done nothing to repair the temple. (2 Kings 12, 6)
Whereupon king Joas summoned Joiada and the other priests; What means it, he asked, that you have not made good the temple’s needs? Henceforth there must be no more taking money according to your rank; it must all be given up to the repairing of the temple. (2 Kings 12, 7)
instead, the high priest Joiada had a chest made, with a hole in the top of it, and put it close to the altar at the right hand side of the temple entrance; into this the priests who keep the door put all the money that was brought there. (2 Kings 12, 9)
Whenever the chest seemed to be over full, one of the king’s secretaries betook himself to the temple, with the high priest, and together they emptied out and counted the money that was to be found there. (2 Kings 12, 10)
The money was not to be used for making pitcher or fork, censer or trumpet, or any other piece of gold or silver ware for the Lord’s house; all the offerings given to the temple (2 Kings 12, 13)
were paid out to the workmen that were repairing the temple; (2 Kings 12, 14)
Nor might Joas preserve the city from attack, till he had collected all the offerings dedicated in the temple by himself, or by Josaphat, Joram and Ochozias, that were kings of Juda before him, all the silver, too, that was to be found there or in the royal palace, and sent them to Hazael, king of Syria. (2 Kings 12, 18)
carried off all the gold and silver and other ware that was to be found in the temple or palace, took hostages besides, and made his way back to Samaria. (2 Kings 14, 14)
To find this tribute for the Assyrian king, Menahem imposed a tax of fifty silver pieces on all the rich and powerful men in his kingdom. Thus the Assyrian king was induced to go home and rid the country of his presence. (2 Kings 15, 20)
gifts, too, he sent him, collecting all the silver and gold that was to be found in temple or palace. (2 Kings 16, 8)
Then he removed the brazen altar, that stood ever in the Lord’s presence opposite the tabernacle, away from its place between the new altar and the temple, to the north side of the new altar. (2 Kings 16, 14)
altered, too, the sabbath porch he had built in the temple, and the outer part of the royal entry.✻ Of all these changes in the temple building the king of Assyria was the cause. (2 Kings 16, 18)
