2 Kings 12
The Reign of Jehoash
of Judah |
2 Chr. 24.1-27 |
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In the seventh year of Jehu, Jeho'ash
began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was Zibi'ah of Beer-sheba.
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And Jeho'ash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days
wherein Jehoi'ada the priest instructed him.
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But the high places were not taken away:
the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high
places.
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And Jeho'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, Ex.
30.11-16 and all the money that cometh into any
man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,
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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.
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But it was so, that in the three
and twentieth year of king Jeho'ash the priests had not repaired the
breaches of the house.
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Then king Jeho'ash called for Jehoi'ada
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.
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And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of
the house.
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But Jehoi'ada 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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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:
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but they gave that to the workmen, and
repaired therewith the house of the LORD.
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Moreover they reckoned not with the men,
into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen:
for they dealt faithfully.
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The trespass money and sin money was not
brought into the house of the LORD: it was the
priests'. Lev. 7.7
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Then Haz'a-el king of Syria went up,
and fought against Gath, and took it: and Haz'a-el set his face to
go up to Jerusalem.
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And Jeho'ash king of Judah took all the
hallowed things that Jehosh'aphat, and Jeho'ram, and Ahazi'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 Haz'a-el king of Syria: and he went away from
Jerusalem.
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And the rest of the acts of Jo'ash, and
all that he did, are they not written in the book of the
Chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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And his servants arose, and made a
conspiracy, and slew Jo'ash in the house of Millo, which goeth down
to Silla.
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For Joz'achar the son of Shim'e-ath, and
Jehoz'abad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died;
and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and
Amazi'ah his son reigned in his stead.
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