2 Kings 12 NLT CSB Parallel

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1 Joash began to rule over Judah in the seventh year of King Jehu’s reign in Israel. He reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother was Zibiah from Beersheba.

1In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah; she was from Beer-sheba.

2All his life Joash did what was pleasing in the LORD’s sight because Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

2Throughout the time the priest Jehoiada instructed him, Joash did what was right in the LORD's sight.

3Yet even so, he did not destroy the pagan shrines, and the people still offered sacrifices and burned incense there.

3Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

4One day King Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money brought as a sacred offering to the LORD’s Temple, whether it is a regular assessment, a payment of vows, or a voluntary gift.

4Then Joash said to the priests, "All the dedicated silver brought to the LORD's temple, census silver, silver from vows, and all silver voluntarily given for the LORD's temple--

5Let the priests take some of that money to pay for whatever repairs are needed at the Temple.”

5each priest is to take it from his assessor and repair whatever damage is found in the temple."

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

6But by the twenty-third year of the reign of King Joash, the priests had not repaired the damage to the temple.

7So King Joash called for Jehoiada and the other priests and asked them, “Why haven’t you repaired the Temple? Don’t use any more money for your own needs. From now on, it must all be spent on Temple repairs.”

7So King Joash called the priest Jehoiada and the other priests and asked, "Why haven't you repaired the temple's damage? Since you haven't, don't take any silver from your assessors; instead, hand it over for the repair of the temple."

8So the priests agreed not to accept any more money from the people, and they also agreed to let others take responsibility for repairing the Temple.

8So the priests agreed that they would receive no silver from the people and would not be the ones to repair the temple's damage.

9Then Jehoiada the priest bored a hole in the lid of a large chest and set it on the right-hand side of the altar at the entrance of the Temple of the LORD. The priests guarding the entrance put all of the people’s contributions into the chest.

9Then the priest Jehoiada took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the LORD's temple; the priests who guarded the threshold put into the chest all the silver that was brought to the LORD's temple.

10Whenever the chest became full, the court secretary and the high priest counted the money that had been brought to the LORD’s Temple and put it into bags.

10Whenever they saw there was a large amount of silver in the chest, the king's secretary and the high priest would go bag up and tally the silver found in the LORD's temple.

11Then they gave the money to the construction supervisors, who used it to pay the people working on the LORD’s Temple—the carpenters, the builders,

11Then they would give the weighed silver to those doing the work--those who oversaw the LORD's temple. They in turn would pay it out to those working on the LORD's temple--the carpenters, the builders,

12the masons, and the stonecutters. They also used the money to buy the timber and the finished stone needed for repairing the LORD’s Temple, and they paid any other expenses related to the Temple’s restoration.

12the masons, and the stonecutters--and would use it to buy timber and quarried stone to repair the damage to the LORD's temple and for all expenses for temple repairs.

13The money brought to the Temple was not used for making silver bowls, lamp snuffers, basins, trumpets, or other articles of gold or silver for the Temple of the LORD.

13However, no silver bowls, wick trimmers, sprinkling basins, trumpets, or any articles of gold or silver were made for the LORD's temple from the contributions brought to the LORD's temple.

14It was paid to the workmen, who used it for the Temple repairs.

14Instead, it was given to those doing the work, and they repaired the LORD's temple with it.

15No accounting of this money was required from the construction supervisors, because they were honest and trustworthy men.

15No accounting was required from the men who received the silver to pay those doing the work, since they worked with integrity.

16However, the money that was contributed for guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the LORD’s Temple. It was given to the priests for their own use. The End of Joash’s Reign

16The silver from the guilt offering and the sin offering was not brought to the LORD's temple since it belonged to the priests.

17About this time King Hazael of Aram went to war against Gath and captured it. Then he turned to attack Jerusalem.

17At that time King Hazael of Aram marched up and fought against Gath and captured it. Then he planned to attack Jerusalem.

18King Joash collected all the sacred objects that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, the previous kings of Judah, had dedicated, along with what he himself had dedicated. He sent them all to Hazael, along with all the gold in the treasuries of the LORD’s Temple and the royal palace. So Hazael called off his attack on Jerusalem.

18So King Joash of Judah took all the items consecrated by himself and by his ancestors--Judah's kings Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah--as well as all the gold found in the treasuries of the LORD's temple and in the king's palace, and he sent them to King Hazael of Aram. Then Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.

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

19The rest of the events of Joash's reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Judah's Kings.

20Joash’s officers plotted against him and assassinated him at Beth-millo on the road to Silla.

20Joash's servants conspired against him and attacked him at Beth-millo on the road that goes down to Silla.

21The assassins were Jozacar son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer—both trusted advisers. Joash was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. Then his son Amaziah became the next king.

21It was his servants Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer who attacked him. He died and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and his son Amaziah became king in his place.

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