2 Kings 12

Jehoash Reigns in Judah

1 In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash 1 began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba. 2 And Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all his days, because Jehoiada the priest instructed him. 3 Nevertheless, r the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings on the high places.

Jehoash Repairs the Temple

4 Jehoash said to the priests, "All the money of the holy things s that is brought into the house of the Lord, the money for which each man is assessed - the money from the assessment of persons - and t the money that a man's heart prompts him to bring into the house of the Lord, 5 let the priests take, each from his donor, and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered." 6 But by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had made no repairs on the house. 7 Therefore King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada 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 donors, but hand it over for the repair of the house." 8 So the priests agreed that they should take no more money from the people, and that they should not repair the house.

9 Then Jehoiada the priest took u 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 And whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's secretary and the high priest came up and they bagged and counted v the money that was found in the house of the Lord. 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 on the house of the Lord, 12 and w 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 for the repairs of the house. 13 x But there were not made for the house of the Lord y 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 for that was given to the workmen who were repairing the house of the Lord with it. 15 And z 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 The money from a the guilt offerings and the money from the b sin offerings was not brought into the house of the Lord; c it belonged to the priests.

17 At that time d Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath and took it. But when Hazael set his face e to go up against Jerusalem, 18 Jehoash king of Judah f took all the sacred gifts that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, g and his own sacred 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 Hazael king of Syria. Then Hazael went away from Jerusalem.

The Death of Joash

19 Now 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? 20 h His servants arose and made a conspiracy i and struck down Joash in the house of j Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla. 21 It was k Jozacar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of k Shomer, his servants, who struck him down, so that he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, l and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

  1. Cross References
    2 Kings 14:4
    But the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.
    2 Kings 15:35
    Nevertheless, the high places were not removed. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord.
    1 Kings 15:14
    But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true to the Lord all his days.
    1 Kings 22:43
    He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the Lord. Yet the high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.
  2. Cross References
    2 Kings 22:4
    Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money that has been brought into the house of the Lord, which the keepers of the threshold have collected from the people.
  3. Cross References
    Exodus 35:5
    Take from among you a contribution to the Lord. Whoever is of a generous heart, let him bring the Lord 's contribution: gold, silver, and bronze.
    1 Chronicles 29:9
    Then the people rejoiced because they had given willingly, for with a whole heart they had offered freely to the Lord. David the king also rejoiced greatly.
  4. Cross References
    Mark 12:41
    And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums.
    Luke 21:1
    Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box.
  5. Cross References
    2 Kings 22:4
    Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money that has been brought into the house of the Lord, which the keepers of the threshold have collected from the people.
  6. Cross References
    2 Kings 22:5 - 6
    And let it be given into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the Lord, and let them give it to the workmen who are at the house of the Lord, repairing the house
  7. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 24:14
    And when they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, and with it were made utensils for the house of the Lord, both for the service and for the burnt offerings, and dishes for incense and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the Lord regularly all the days of Jehoiada.
  8. Cross References
    1 Kings 7:50
    The cups, snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and fire pans, of pure gold; and the sockets of gold, for the doors of the innermost part of the house, the Most Holy Place, and for the doors of the nave of the temple.
  9. Cross References
    2 Kings 22:7
    But no accounting shall be asked from them for the money that is delivered into their hand, for they deal honestly.
  10. Cross References
    Leviticus 5:15
    If anyone commits a breach of faith and sins unintentionally in any of the holy things of the Lord, he shall bring to the Lord as his compensation, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued in silver shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering.
    Leviticus 5:18
    He shall bring to the priest a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent for a guilt offering, and the priest shall make atonement for him for the mistake that he made unintentionally, and he shall be forgiven.
  11. Cross References
    Leviticus 4:24
    And shall lay his hand on the head of the goat and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the Lord ; it is a sin offering.
    Leviticus 4:29
    And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.
  12. Cross References
    Leviticus 7:7
    The guilt offering is just like the sin offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with it shall have it.
    Numbers 18:19
    All the holy contributions that the people of Israel present to the Lord I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. It is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord for you and for your offspring with you.
  13. Cross References
    2 Kings 8:12
    And Hazael said, "Why does my lord weep?" He answered, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women.
    1 Kings 19:17
    And the one who escapes from the sword of Hazael shall Jehu put to death, and the one who escapes from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha put to death.
  14. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 24:23 - 24
    At the end of the year the army of the Syrians came up against Joash. They came to Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus.
  15. Cross References
    2 Kings 16:8
    Ahaz also took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasures of the king's house and sent a present to the king of Assyria.
    2 Kings 18:15 - 16
    And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king's house.
    1 Kings 15:18
    Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house and gave them into the hands of his servants. And King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying.
    2 Kings 14:14
    And he seized all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king's house, also hostages, and he returned to Samaria.
    1 Kings 14:26
    He took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house. He took away everything. He also took away all the shields of gold that Solomon had made.
  16. Cross References
    2 Kings 12:4
    Jehoash said to the priests, "All the money of the holy things that 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 that a man's heart prompts him to bring into the house of the Lord.
  17. Cross References
    2 Kings 12:20 - 21
    His servants arose and made a conspiracy and struck down Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
    2 Chronicles 24:25 - 27
    When they had departed from him, leaving him severely wounded, his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed. So he died, and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.
  18. Cross References
    2 Kings 14:5
    And as soon as the royal power was firmly in his hand, he struck down his servants who had struck down the king his father.
  19. Cross References
    2 Samuel 5:9
    And David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David. And David built the city all around from the Millo inward.
  20. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 24:26
    Those who conspired against him were Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonite, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabite.
  21. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 24:26
    Those who conspired against him were Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonite, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabite.
  22. Cross References
    2 Kings 14:1
    In the second year of Joash the son of Joahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, began to reign.
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