2 Kings 12

1In the seventh year of Jehu began Jehoash to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.

1Jehoash began his reign in the seventh year of Jehu’s reign in Israel. He ruled in Jerusalem for forty years. His mother was Zibiah, who was from Beer-sheba.

2And Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

2Jehoash did what was right in the sight of the LORD throughout his life, as long as Jehoiada the priest was his teacher.

3Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

3However, the local shrines were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense at those 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,

4Jehoash said to the priests, 'Collect all the money brought as sacred offerings to the Temple of the LORD—the silver from the census, the money for personal vows, and all the money that people voluntarily bring to the Temple.'

5let the priests take it to them, every man from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.

5'The priests should receive this money from the donors they know and use it to repair the Temple wherever damage is found.'

6But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

6But by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash’s reign, the priests still had not repaired the damage to the Temple.

7Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore take no more money from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.

7So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and asked them, 'Why haven't you repaired the damage to the Temple? Stop taking money for yourselves and hand it over so it can be used for the repairs.'

8And the priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.

8The priests agreed that they would no longer collect money from the people or be responsible for the repairs themselves.

9But Jehoiada the priest took 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 house of Jehovah: and the priests that kept the threshold put therein all the money that was brought into the house of Jehovah.

9Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid. He placed it beside the altar, on the right side as people entered the Temple of the LORD. The priests who guarded the entrance put all the money brought to the Temple into the chest.

10And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags and counted the money that was found in the house of Jehovah.

10Whenever they saw that the chest was full of money, the king’s secretary and the high priest would come to the Temple, count the money, and put it into bags.

11And they gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of Jehovah: and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, that wrought upon the house of Jehovah,

11They gave the counted money to the men appointed to supervise the work on the Temple of the LORD. These supervisors used it to pay the carpenters and builders working on the Temple,

12and to the masons and the hewers of stone, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the house of Jehovah, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

12as well as the masons and stonecutters. They also used it to buy timber and cut stone to repair the damage to the LORD’s Temple and to pay for all other repair expenses.

13But there were not made for the house of Jehovah cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of Jehovah;

13The money brought into the Temple was not used to make silver bowls, lamp snuffers, basins, trumpets, or any gold or silver containers.

14for they gave that to them that did the work, and repaired therewith the house of Jehovah.

14Instead, they paid the money to the workers who used it to repair the Temple of the LORD.

15Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to give to them that did the work; for they dealt faithfully.

15They did not require an accounting from the men who were given the money to pay the workers, because these supervisors were honest and trustworthy.

16The money for the trespass-offerings, and the money for the sin-offerings, was not brought into the house of Jehovah: it was the priests’.

16The money from the guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the Temple chest; it belonged to the priests.

17Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.

17Around that time, Hazael king of Syria marched up and attacked Gath and captured it. Then he decided to march against Jerusalem.

18And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings 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’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.

18So King Jehoash of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his ancestors—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—along with his own dedicated gifts and all the gold found in the treasuries of the LORD’s Temple and the royal palace. He sent it all to Hazael king of Syria, who then withdrew from Jerusalem.

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 kings of Judah?

19The rest of the events of Joash’s reign, and everything he did, are recorded in the Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.

20And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and smote Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goeth down to Silla.

20His own officials conspired against him and assassinated Joash at the house of Millo, on the road that goes down to Silla.

21For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, 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.

21The officials who struck him down were Jozacar son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer. He died and was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. His son Amaziah became the next king.