Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Second
Kings: Chapter 12
1. In the seventh year of Jehu
Je-ho-ash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name was Zi-bi-ah of Beer-sheba.
2. And Je-ho-ash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all
his days wherein Je-hoi-a-da the priest instructed him.
3. But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed
and burnt incense in the high places.
4. And Je-ho-ash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated
things that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of
every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at,
and all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the
house of the LORD,
5. Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and
let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall
be found.
6. But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Je-ho-ash
the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
7. Then king Je-ho-ash called for Je-hoi-a-da the priest, and the other
priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the
house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but
deliver it for the breaches of the house.
8. And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people,
neither to repair the breaches of the house.
9. But Je-hoi-a-da 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 cometh into
the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein
all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.
10. And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest,
that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in
bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD.
11. And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did
the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they laid
it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of
the LORD.
12. And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed
stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that
was laid out for the house to repair it.
13. Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of
silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of
silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.
14. But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house
of the LORD.
15. Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they
delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt
faithfully.
16. The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of
the LORD: it was the priests'.
17. Then Ha-za-el king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and
took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
18. And Je-ho-ash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that
Je-hosh-a-phat, and Je-hor-am, and A-ha-zi-ah, his fathers, kings of
Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that
was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's
house, and sent it to Ha-za-el king of Syria: and he went away from
Jerusalem.
19. And 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. And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the
house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
21. For Jo-za-char the son of Shim-e-ath, and Je-ho-za-bad the son of
Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with
his fathers in the city of David: and Am-a-zi-ah his son reigned in his
stead.
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