NITHYAM SONGS2 Kings 12
World English Bible (WEB) • 21 verses
1Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2Jehoash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
Related2 Chronicles 24:17-22 · 2 Chronicles 24:2 · 2 Chronicles 25:2 · 2 Kings 14:3 · 2 Chronicles 26:4
3However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
Related2 Kings 14:4 · 2 Kings 15:35 · 1 Kings 22:43 · 2 Kings 18:4 · 1 Kings 15:14 · 2 Chronicles 31:4
4Jehoash 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,
Related2 Kings 22:4 · Exodus 35:5 · Exodus 30:12-16 · Exodus 35:29 · 1 Chronicles 29:3-9 · Exodus 35:22
5let 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.”
RelatedIsaiah 58:12 · 2 Chronicles 24:5 · 1 Kings 11:27 · 2 Kings 12:12 · 2 Kings 22:5-6 · 2 Chronicles 24:7
6But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house.
RelatedIsaiah 56:10-12 · 1 Peter 5:2 · 2 Chronicles 29:34 · Malachi 1:10 · 1 Samuel 2:29-30 · Philippians 2:21
7Then 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.”
Related2 Kings 12:2 · 2 Chronicles 23:1 · 1 Chronicles 21:3 · 2 Kings 11:4 · 2 Chronicles 24:5-14 · 2 Chronicles 24:16
8The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house.
9But 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.
RelatedMark 12:41 · Jeremiah 35:4 · Luke 21:1 · 1 Chronicles 15:24 · Psalms 84:10 · 2 Chronicles 24:8-14
10When 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.
Related2 Samuel 8:17 · 2 Kings 19:2 · 2 Kings 22:12 · 2 Kings 5:23 · 2 Samuel 20:25 · 2 Kings 22:3-4
11They 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,
12and 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.
13But 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;
14for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired the LORD’s house with it.
15Moreover 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.
16The money for the trespass offerings and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into the LORD’s house. It was the priests’.
RelatedLeviticus 7:7 · Leviticus 5:15-18 · Leviticus 4:24 · Leviticus 4:29 · Numbers 5:8-10 · Numbers 18:8-9
17Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
Related2 Chronicles 24:23-24 · 1 Chronicles 18:1 · Luke 9:53 · 1 Kings 2:39-40 · 2 Kings 8:12-15 · Jeremiah 42:15
18Jehoash 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.
Related1 Kings 15:18 · 2 Kings 18:15-16 · 2 Kings 12:4 · 1 Kings 14:26 · 2 Kings 16:8 · 2 Chronicles 16:2
19Now 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?
20His servants arose and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
Related2 Kings 14:5 · 2 Chronicles 24:24-27 · 2 Samuel 5:9 · Judges 9:6 · 1 Kings 11:27 · 2 Chronicles 33:24
21For 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.
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