2 Kings 12

In the year of seven to Jehu, Joash reigned. And he reigned 40 years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother {was} Zibiah, from Beersheba.

And Joash did right in the eyes of God all of his days because Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

Only they did not remove the high places. The people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places. \*

And Joash said to the priests, “All of the silver of the sacred things that is brought {into} the house of God, the silver passing over a man, the silver of the lives of his valuation, all of the silver that goes up onto the heart of a man to bring {into} the house of God,

the priests shall take for themselves, a man from his acquaintance, and they shall strengthen the damage of the house in every {place} where damage is found there.” \*

And it happened in the year of 23, the year to King Joash, the priests had not strengthened the damage of the house.

And King Joash called for Jehoiada the priest and for the priests, and he said to them, “Why are you not strengthening the damage of the house? And now, you shall not take silver from your acquaintances, but for the damage of the house you shall give it.”

And the priests agreed not to accept silver from the people and not to strengthen the damage of the house. \*

And Jehoiada the priest took a box and bored a hole in its lid, and he put it beside the altar, on the right side. When a man came {to} the house of God, then the priests keeping the threshold put into there all of the silver brought {to} the house of God.

And it happened, when they saw that silver {was} abundant in the box, that the scribe of the king went up with the great priest, and they bound {it}, and they weighed the silver found {at} the house of God. \*

And they gave the silver that was weighed into the hands of the doers of the work, the ones appointed {over} the house of God. And they brought it out to the craftsmen of wood and to the builders, the ones making the house of God,

and to the masons and to the hewers of stone and to buy wood and stones of hewing to strengthen the damage of the house of God and for everything that came out concerning the house to strengthen {it}. \*

However, {in} the house of God, bowls of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, {or} any {other} articles of gold or articles of silver were not made from the silver brought {to} the house of God,

because they gave it to the doers of the work. And they strengthened the house of God with it. \*

And they did not reckon with the men into whose hand they gave the silver to give to the doers of the work, for they were acting in faithfulness.

The silver of the guilt offering and the silver of the sin offerings was not brought into the house of God. They were to the priests. \*

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

And Joash, the king of Judah, took all of the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, the kings of Judah, had consecrated and his holy things and all of the gold found in the treasuries of the house of God and the house of the king, and he sent {them} to Hazael, the king of Aram, and he went up from upon Jerusalem. \*

Now the rest of the matters of Joash and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the matters of the days of the kings of Judah?

And his servants arose, and they conspired a conspiracy, and they struck Joash {in} Beth Millo, on the descent {to} Silla.

And Jozabad, 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. And Amaziah his son reigned in his place. \*