2 Kings 12

High Places Remain 2 Kings 12:3

³Verse 3. However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

Temple Repairs Initiated 2 Kings 12:4–8

⁴Verse 4. Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into Yahweh’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated, and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into Yahweh’s house, ⁵Verse 5. let the priests take it to them, each man from his donor; and they shall repair the damage to the house, wherever any damage is found.” ⁶Verse 6. But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house. ⁷Verse 7. Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why don’t you repair the damage to the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the damage to the house.”

⁸Verse 8. The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house.

Collection and Distribution of Funds 2 Kings 12:9–15

⁹Verse 9. But 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 comes into Yahweh’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house into it. ¹⁰Verse 10. When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put it in bags and counted the money that was found in Yahweh’s house. ¹¹Verse 11. They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on Yahweh’s house,

¹²Verse 12. and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to Yahweh’s house, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it. ¹³Verse 13. But there were not made for Yahweh’s house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house; ¹⁴Verse 14. for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired Yahweh’s house with it. ¹⁵Verse 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.

Offerings Not Brought to the Temple 2 Kings 12:16

¹⁶Verse 16. The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into Yahweh’s house. It was the priests’.

Threat from Hazael and Joash's End 2 Kings 12:17–21

¹⁷Verse 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. ¹⁸Verse 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 Yahweh’s house, and of the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem. ¹⁹Verse 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?

²⁰Verse 20. His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla. ²¹Verse 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 David’s city; and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.