2 Kings 12:7-21 ▼

7 And 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.”

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

9 And 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.

10 And 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.

11 And 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,

12 and 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.

13 However, 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;

14 but they gave to those doing the work, and they strengthened with it the house of YHWH.

15 And 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.

16 The 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.

17 Then went up Hazael king of Aram and fought against Gath and captured it. And Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem.

18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy 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.

19 And 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?

20 And his servants arose and formed a conspiracy, and they killed Joash at Beth-millo, which goes down to Silla.

21 For 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.