Joash Repairs the Temple
(2 Chronicles 24:1–14)

1In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash† became king. And forty years he reigned in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Zibiah of Beersheba. 2And Jehoash did right in the eyes of YHWH all the days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

3But the high places were not taken away; still the people sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

4And Jehoash said to the priests, “All the silver of the dedicated gifts that are brought into the house of YHWH, the silver of passing over of each man, the silver of his valuation assessment, and all the silver that a man purposes in his heart to bring into the house of YHWH, 5let the priests take it unto themselves, each from his constituency, and they shall strengthen the breach of the house in every place where there is found a breach.”

6And it was by the twentieth year and third year of King Jehoash, that the priests had not strengthened the breach of the house. 7And King Jehoash called to Jehoiada the priest, and to the priests, and he said to them, “Why have you⁺ not strengthened the breach of the house? And now take no more silver from your⁺ constituency, but for the breach of the house give it.”

8And the priests agreed to receive no more silver from the people, nor to strengthen the breach of the house.

9And Jehoiada the priest took one chest and bored a hole in its lid and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of YHWH. And the priests who kept the door put there all the silver brought into the house of YHWH.

10And it was, at their seeing that there was much silver in the chest, that came up a scribe of the king and the high priest, and they bound it up and counted the silver found in the house of YHWH. 11And they gave the weighed silver into the hands of those who did the work, those inspecting the house of YHWH, and they paid it out to the carpenters and to the builders making the house of YHWH, 12and to the masons, and to hewers of stone, and for buying timber and hewn stone to strengthen the breach of the house of YHWH, and for all that went out upon the temple to strengthen it.

13However, there were not made for the house of YHWH basins of silver, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets, or any articles of gold or articles of silver, from the silver brought into the house of YHWH; 14but they gave to those doing the work, and they strengthened with it the house of YHWH.

15And they did not require an account with the men whom into their hands they delivered the silver to be paid to those doing the work, for in faithfulness they were acting. 16The silver from the guilt offerings and the silver from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of YHWH; to the priests it belonged.

The Death of Joash
(2 Chronicles 24:23–27)

17Then went up Hazael king of Aram and fought against Gath and captured it. And Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem. 18And Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred things that Jehoshaphat, and Joram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred things, and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of YHWH and in the house of the king. And he sent them to Hazael king of Aram. And he went up from Jerusalem.

19And the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Words of the Days of the Kings of Judah?

20And his servants arose and formed a conspiracy, and they killed Joash at Beth-millo, which goes down to Silla. 21For Jozabad† son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer,† his servants, struck him down, and he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the City of David, and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.