2 Kings 11:21-12:16

Jehoash Reigns in Judah

21 1 q Jehoash 2 was seven years old when he began to reign.

2 Kings 12

1 In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash 3 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.

  1. Cross References
    2 Kings 11:21 - 12:15
    Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.
    2 Chronicles 24:1 - 14
    Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
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