1 In the seventh year of Jehu began Jehoash to reign; and he reigned
forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2 Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all his days in
which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. 3 However the high places were
not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high
places. 4 Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the holy things
that is brought into the house of Yahweh, in current money, the money of the
persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it comes into any
man’s heart to bring into the house of Yahweh, 5 let the priests take it
to them, every man from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the breaches
of the house, wherever any breach shall be found. 6 But it was so, that in
the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the
breaches of the house. 7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest,
and for the other priests, and said to them, Why don’t you
repair the breaches of the house? now therefore take no more money
from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
8 The priests consented that they should take no more money from
the people, neither repair the breaches of the house. 9 But Jehoiada 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 comes into the house of Yahweh: and the
priests who kept the threshold put therein all the money that was brought
into the house of Yahweh. 10 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 counted the money that was found in the house of
Yahweh. 11 They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of
those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of Yahweh: and
they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on the house
of Yahweh, 12 and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying
timber and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the house of Yahweh, and for
all that was laid out for the house to repair it. 13 But there were not
made for the house of Yahweh cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any
vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the
house of Yahweh; 14 for they gave that to those who did the work, and
repaired therewith the house of Yahweh. 15 Moreover they didn’t demand an
accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to
those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully. 16 The money for the
trespass-offerings, and the money for the sin-offerings, was not brought into
the house of Yahweh: it was the priests’. 17 Then Hazael king of Syria
went up, and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go
up to Jerusalem. 18 Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that
Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had
dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the
treasures of the house of Yahweh, and of the king’s house, and sent it to
Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem. 19 Now the rest of
the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 20 His servants arose, and made a
conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that
goes down to Silla. 21 For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the
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.
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