2 Kings, 12
1. Jehoash was seven years old when he came to the throne.
1. In the seventh year of Jehu Jeho'ash began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zib'iah of Beer-sheba.
2. Jehoash became king in the seventh year of Jehu, and reigned for forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2. And Jeho'ash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all his days, because Jehoi'ada the priest instructed him.
3. All his life Jehoash did what Yahweh regards as right, having been instructed by Jehoiada the priest.
3. Nevertheless the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and burn incense on the high places.
4. The high places, however, were not abolished, and the people still offered sacrifices and incense on the high places.
4. Jeho'ash said to the priests, "All the money of the holy things which is brought into the house of the LORD, the money for which each man is assessed -- the money from the assessment of persons -- and the money which a man's heart prompts him to bring into the house of the LORD,
5. Jehoash said to the priests, 'All the money from the sacred revenues brought to the Temple of Yahweh, the money from personal taxes, and all the money voluntarily offered to the Temple-
5. let the priests take, each from his acquaintance; and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered."
6. the priests are to receive this individually from people of their acquaintance and will carry out all the repairs to the Temple which need to be made.'
6. But by the twenty-third year of King Jeho'ash the priests had made no repairs on the house.
7. Now in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had done no repairs to the Temple;
7. Therefore King Jeho'ash summoned Jehoi'ada 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 acquaintances, but hand it over for the repair of the house."
8. so King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests. 'Why are you not repairing the Temple?' he asked. 'You are no longer to accept money from people of your acquaintance but are to hand it over for the Temple repairs.'
8. So the priests agreed that they should take no more money from the people, and that they should not repair the house.
9. The priests agreed to accept no money from the people and no longer to be responsible for repairs to the Temple.
9. Then Jehoi'ada 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 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.
10. Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in the lid and placed it beside the pillar, to the right of the entry to the Temple of Yahweh; in it the priests who guarded the threshold put all the money which was given for the Temple of Yahweh.
10. And whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's secretary and the high priest came up and they counted and tied up in bags the money that was found in the house of the LORD.
11. Whenever they saw that there was a great deal of money in the chest, the king's secretary would come, and they would empty it out and reckon the money then in the Temple of Yahweh.
11. Then 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 upon the house of the LORD,
12. Once checked, they paid this money over to the masters of works attached to the Temple of Yahweh, and these in turn spent it on carpenters and builders working on the Temple of Yahweh,
12. and to 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 upon the repairs of the house.
13. on masons and stonecutters, and on buying timber and dressed stone to be used for repairs to the Temple of Yahweh; in short, for all the costs of the Temple repairs.
13. But there were not made for the house of the LORD basins 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,
14. But no silver basins, knives, sprinkling bowls, trumpets or gold or silver objects were made for the Temple of Yahweh out of the money presented,
14. for that was given to the workmen who were repairing the house of the LORD with it.
15. which was all given to the masters of works for repairing the Temple of Yahweh.
15. And they did not ask an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workmen, for they dealt honestly.
16. No accounts were kept with the men to whom the money was paid over to be spent on the workmen, since they were honest in their work.
16. The money from the guilt offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.
17. Money offered in expiation of an offence or of a sin was not given to the Temple of Yahweh; that was for the priests.
17. At that time Haz'ael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it. But when Haz'ael set his face to go up against Jerusalem,
18. At that time Hazael king of Aram went to war against Gath, and captured it; he then prepared to attack Jerusalem.
18. Jeho'ash king of Judah took all the votive gifts that Jehosh'aphat and Jeho'ram and Ahazi'ah, his fathers, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own votive gifts, and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent these to Haz'ael king of Syria. Then Haz'ael went away from Jerusalem.
19. Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred offerings dedicated by his ancestors, the kings of Judah, Jehoshaphat, Jehoram and Ahaziah, with those which he himself had dedicated, and all the gold which was to be found in the treasuries of the Temple of Yahweh and of the palace; he sen it all to Hazael king of Aram, who retired from Jerusalem.
19. Now the rest of the acts of Jo'ash, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
20. The rest of the history of Joash, his entire career, is this not recorded in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah?
20. His servants arose and made a conspiracy, and slew Jo'ash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
21. His own retainers rebelled and hatched a plot; they murdered Joash in the palace of the Millo . . .
21. It was Jo'zacar the son of Shim'e-ath and Jeho'zabad the son of Shomer, his servants, who struck him down, so that he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Amazi'ah his son reigned in his stead.
22. Jozacar son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer were the retainers who struck the blows from which he died. He was buried with his ancestors in the City of David; his son Amaziah succeeded him.
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