2 Kings 12

1In the seventh yearH8141 of Jehu began JehoashH3060 to reignH4427; and he reignedH4427 forty yearsH8141 in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba. 2And JehoashH3060 did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him. 3Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

4And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the hallowed things that is brought into the house of Jehovah, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it cometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of Jehovah, 5let the priestsH3548 take it to them, every manH376 from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the breaches of the houseH1004, wheresoever any breach shall be found. 6But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priestsH3548 had not repairedH2388 the breaches of the houseH1004. 7Then kingH4428 JehoashH3060 called for Jehoiada the priestH3548, and for the other priestsH3548, and said unto them, Why repairH2388 ye not the breaches of the houseH1004? now therefore takeH2388 no more money from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the houseH1004. 8And the priestsH3548 consented that they should takeH3947 no more moneyH3701 from the people, neither repairH2388 the breaches of the houseH1004.

9But Jehoiada the priestH3548 tookH3947 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 houseH1004 of Jehovah: and the priestsH3548 that kept the threshold put therein all the moneyH3701 that was brought into the houseH1004 of Jehovah. 10And it was so, when they saw that there was much moneyH3701 in the chestH727, that the king’s scribe and the high priestH3548 cameH935 up, and they putH5414 up in bags and counted the moneyH3701 that was found in the houseH1004 of Jehovah. 11And they gave the moneyH3701 that wasH1961 weighed out into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the houseH1004 of Jehovah: and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, that wrought upon the houseH1004 of Jehovah, 12and to the masons and the hewers of stone, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the houseH1004 of Jehovah, and for all that was laid out for the houseH1004 to repair it. 13But there were not madeH2388 for the houseH1004 of Jehovah cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was broughtH3318 into the houseH1004 of Jehovah; 14for they gave that to them that did the work, and repaired therewith the houseH1004 of Jehovah. 15Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to giveH5414 to them that did the workH4399; for they dealt faithfully. 16The moneyH3701 for the trespass-offerings, and the moneyH3701 for the sin-offerings, was not brought into the house of Jehovah: it was the priests’.

17Then Hazael king of Syria wentH935 up, and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to goH935 up to Jerusalem. 18And Jehoash kingH4428 of Judah tookH3920 all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kingsH4428 of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and of the king’sH4428 house, and sent it to HazaelH2371 kingH4428 of Syria: and he wentH5927 away from JerusalemH3389.

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 kingsH4428 of JudahH3063? 20And his servants arose, and madeH6213 a conspiracy, and smote JoashH3101 at the house of Millo, on the way that goeth downH3789 to Silla. 21For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servantsH5650, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.