4 Kingdoms 12

1Joash was seven years old when he began to reign.

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2He began his reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he ruled for forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

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3And all the days in which Jehoiada the priest enlightened him, Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord.

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4However, none of the high places were removed, and the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

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5And Joash said to the priests, 'With regard to all the silver arising from things consecrated, the silver offerings of the house of the Lord—the valuation of the silver assessed for each man—all the silver which comes from the heart of the man who brings it into the house of the Lord,

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6let the priests take for themselves, each man from the silver that comes in. But they must maintain the repairs to the temple, whenever and whatever repairs are needed.'

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7Now it came to be that by the twenty-third year of King Joash, the priests had not maintained the repair of the temple.

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8So King Joash called Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and said to them, 'Why have you not repaired and maintained the temple? Now take the silver from the treasury and use it to repair and maintain the temple.'

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9So the priests, all with one voice, agreed they would not receive any more silver from the people until they had made all the repairs to the temple.

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10Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and placed it on the right side of the altar in the house of the Lord. Then the priests who kept the weights put in the chest all the money found in the house of the Lord.

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11And it came to be that whenever they noticed a large amount of silver in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest put it in bags and weighed the silver found that day in the house of the Lord.

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12Then they gave the silver apportioned for repairs into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of the Lord; to the carpenters and builders who worked on the house of the Lord,

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13to the masons, to the hewers of stone, to the buyers of wood, to make all repairs to the house of the Lord, and for all things discharged to maintain the house of the Lord.

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14However, silver doors, nails, bowls, and trumpets—any vessel of gold or vessel of silver—were not to be made from any of the silver brought into the house of the Lord.

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15For this was given to the workmen who repaired the house of the Lord with it,

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16for they did not require an account from the men into whose hands they delivered the silver, for the workmen dealt faithfully.

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17Money for a sin offering, and money for a trespass offering, and any money brought into the house of the Lord went to the priests.

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18In those days, Hazael king of Syria went up to wage war against Gath, and they captured it. Then Hazael set his face to war against Jerusalem.

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19So Joash king of Judah took all the sacred things dedicated by his fathers, Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, his own sacred things, all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the Lord and in the king's house, and sent them on to Hazael king of Syria. Then Hazael went away from Jerusalem.

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20Now the rest of the acts of Joash and everything he did, are these not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?

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21And his servants rose up and formed a conspiracy, and killed Joash in the house of the Millo in Silla.

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22For Jozachar 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. Then Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

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