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          DASV: 2 Kings 12    

1 Joash [also called Jehoash] began to reign in the seventh
year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem.
His mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2 Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD
all his days because Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
3 Nevertheless the high places were not taken away;
the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the
high places.

4 Joash said to the priests, "All the money for the
sacred offerings brought into the temple of the LORD,
including the money collected for the census tax, the
money received from personal vows and all the money
brought voluntarily to the temple of the LORD,
5 let the priests take some from each of those donating
and use it to repair whatever damage to the temple is
found.
6 But by the twenty-third year of king Joash, the priests
still had not made the repairs on the temple.
7 Then king Joash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the
other priests, and asked them, "Why haven't you repaired
the damage to the temple? Now therefore do not
take any more money from your donors for yourselves,
but use it to pay for repairing the damage to the temple."
8 So the priests consented that they would not take any
more money from the people, nor would they themselves
repair the damage to the temple.
9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole
in its lid. He set it beside the altar, on the right
side as one enters the house of the LORD. The priests
who guarded the entrance put in it all the money
that was brought into the temple of the LORD.
10 When they saw that there was a lot of money in the
chest, the king's scribe and the high priest came up,
counted the money that was found in the temple of
the LORD and put it in bags.
11 They gave the money that was weighed out to the
construction supervisors, who had the oversight of
the temple of the LORD. They hired the carpenters
and the builders, who worked on the temple of the LORD,
12 along with the masons and the stonecutters.
They bought timber and cut stone to repair the
damage to the temple of the LORD, as well as paid
for any other expenses required to repair the temple.
13 But the money brought to the temple of the LORD
was not used for cups of silver, wick trimmers,
basins, trumpets, or any other articles of silver
or gold.
14 It was paid to those who did the work and with it
repaired the temple of the LORD.
15 They did not ask for an accounting of the supervisors
into whose hand they had delivered the money to give
to those who did the work; for they were honest.
16 The money for the trespass offerings, and the money
for the sin offerings, was not brought into the
temple of the LORD; it was the priests'.

17 Then Hazael king of Aram went up, fought against
Gath and captured it. Hazael then decided to go
up against Jerusalem.
18 So Joash king of Judah took all the sacred objects
that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers,
kings of Judah, had consecrated, and his own sacred
items, and all the gold that was found in the
treasuries of the temple of the LORD, and the king's
palace, and sent it to Hazael king of Aram, who
then withdrew from Jerusalem.

19 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that
he did, are they not written in the scroll of
the Annals of the Kings of Judah?
20 His officials conspired against him and assassinated
Joash at Beth Millo, on the road that goes down
to Silla.
21 It was Jozacar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad
the son of Shomer, his servants, who struck him
down so that he died. He was buried with his father
in the city of David and Amaziah his son reigned
in his place.

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