2Kings 12

12In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother's name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.H7651H8141H3058H3060H4427H705H8141H4427H3389H517H8034H6645H8842Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the years Jehoiada the priest instructed him.H3060H6213H3477H5869H3068H3117H3077H3548H33843The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.H1116H5493H5971H2076H6999H11164Joash said to the priests, "Collect all the money that is brought as sacred offerings to the temple of the LORD—the money collected in the census, the money received from personal vows and the money brought voluntarily to the temple.H3060H559H3548H3701H6944H935H1004H3068H3701H376H5674H3701H5315H6187H3701H5927H376H3820H935H1004H30685Let every priest receive the money from one of the treasurers, then use it to repair whatever damage is found in the temple."H3548H3947H376H4378H2388H919H1004H919H46726But by the twenty-third year of King Joash the priests still had not repaired the temple.H7969H8141H6242H8141H4428H3060H3548H2388H919H10047Therefore King Joash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and asked them, "Why aren't you repairing the damage done to the temple? Take no more money from your treasurers, but hand it over for repairing the temple."H4428H3060H7121H3077H3548H3548H559H2388H919H1004H3947H3701H4378H5414H919H10048The priests agreed that they would not collect any more money from the people and that they would not repair the temple themselves.H3548H225H3947H1115H3701H5971H1115H2388H919H10049Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid. He placed it beside the altar, on the right side as one enters the temple of the LORD. The priests who guarded the entrance put into the chest all the money that was brought to the temple of the LORD.H3077H3548H3947H259H727H5344H2356H1817H5414H681H4196H3225H376H935H1004H3068H3548H8104H5592H5414H3701H935H1004H306810Whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the royal secretary and the high priest came, counted the money that had been brought into the temple of the LORD and put it into bags.H7200H7227H3701H727H4428H5608H1419H3548H5927H6696H4487H3701H4672H1004H306811When the amount had been determined, they gave the money to the men appointed to supervise the work on the temple. With it they paid those who worked on the temple of the LORD—the carpenters and builders,H5414H3701H8505H3027H6213H4399H6485H6485H1004H3068H3318H2796H6086H1129H6213H1004H306812the masons and stonecutters. They purchased timber and blocks of dressed stone for the repair of the temple of the LORD, and met all the other expenses of restoring the temple.H1443H2672H68H7069H6086H4274H68H2388H919H1004H3068H3318H1004H239413The money brought into the temple was not spent for making silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets or any other articles of gold or silver for the temple of the LORD;H6213H1004H3068H5592H3701H4212H4219H2689H3627H2091H3627H3701H3701H935H1004H306814it was paid to the workers, who used it to repair the temple.H5414H4399H6213H2388H1004H306815They did not require an accounting from those to whom they gave the money to pay the workers, because they acted with complete honesty.H2803H582H3027H5414H3701H5414H4399H6213H53016The money from the guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the temple of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.H817H3701H2403H3701H935H1004H3068H354817About this time Hazael king of Aram went up and attacked Gath and captured it. Then he turned to attack Jerusalem.H2371H4428H758H5927H3898H1661H3920H2371H7760H6440H5927H338918But Joash king of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his predecessors—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—and the gifts he himself had dedicated and all the gold found in the treasuries of the temple of the LORD and of the royal palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram, who then withdrew from Jerusalem.H3060H4428H3063H3947H6944H3092H3088H274H1H4428H3063H6942H6944H2091H4672H214H1004H3068H4428H1004H7971H2371H4428H758H5927H338919As for the other events of the reign of Joash, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?H3499H1697H3101H6213H3789H5612H1697H3117H4428H306320His officials conspired against him and assassinated him at Beth Millo, on the road down to Silla.H5650H6965H7194H7195H5221H3101H1004H4407H1037H3381H553821The officials who murdered him were Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer. He died and was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. And Amaziah his son succeeded him as king.H3108H1121H8100H3075H1121H7763H5650H5221H4191H6912H1H5892H1732H558H1121H4427