2 Kings 12:17-21

Jehoash Repairs the Temple

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 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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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