2 Kings 12

¹In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king. He reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

²And Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all his days, for Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

³Nevertheless the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned offerings on the high places.

⁴And Jehoash said to the priests, All the silver of the sacred donations that is brought into the house of the LORD -- the silver from the census tax, the silver from the personal redemption valuations, and all the silver that anyone brings willingly to the house of the LORD --

⁵Let the priests take, each from his acquaintance, and let them repair the damage to the house wherever damage is found.

⁶And it happened that in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

⁷And the king Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the priests, and said to them, 'Why are you not repairing the breach of the house? Now do not take silver from your acquaintances, for to the repair of the house you must give it.'

⁸And the priests agreed not to take the silver from the people, and not to repair the breaches of the house.

⁹And 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 enters the house of the LORD; and the priests who guarded the threshold put into it all the silver brought into the house of the LORD.

¹⁰And whenever they saw that there was much silver in the chest, the king's secretary and the high priest would come up and count the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and put it into bags.

¹¹And they would give the weighed-out silver into the hand of those who did the work, those appointed over the house of the LORD, and they brought it out to the woodworkers and the builders who were working on the house of the LORD.

¹²and for the masons and the hewers of stone, and for buying timber and quarried stone to repair the damage to the house of the LORD, and for all that was needed for the house to restore it.

¹³But no silver basins, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, or any vessels of gold or silver were made for the house of the LORD from the silver that was brought into the house of the LORD.

¹⁴for they gave it to the workers who did the work, and they repaired the house of the LORD with it.

¹⁵And they did not reckon with the men who gave the silver into their hand to give to the workers, for they dealt faithfully.

¹⁶The silver of the guilt offering and the silver of the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it was for the priests.

¹⁷Then Hazael king of Aram went up and fought against Gath and captured it; and Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem.

¹⁸And Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers, kings of Judah, had consecrated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the house of the king, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram; and he withdrew from Jerusalem.

¹⁹Now 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?

²⁰His servants arose and formed a conspiracy and struck down Joash at Beth-Millo, on the road that goes down to Silla.

²¹And Jozacar son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the City of David. And Amaziah his son reigned in his place.