2 Kings 12-13New King James Version (NKJV)
Jehoash Repairs the Temple
12 In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash[a] became king, and he
reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah
of Beersheba. 2 Jehoash did what was right
in the sight of the Lord all the days in which Jehoiada the priest
instructed him. 3 But the high places were not
taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
4 And Jehoash said to the priests,
“All the money of the dedicated gifts that are brought into the house of
the Lord—each man’s census money, each man’s assessment money[b]—and all the
money that a man purposes in his heart to bring into the house of
the Lord, 5 let the priests take it themselves,
each from his constituency; and let them repair the damages of the temple,
wherever any dilapidation is found.”
6 Now it was so, by the twenty-third
year of King Jehoash, that the priests had not repaired the
damages of the temple. 7 So King Jehoash called
Jehoiada the priest and the other priests, and said to them,
“Why have you not repaired the damages of the temple? Now therefore, do not
take more money from your constituency, but deliver it for
repairing the damages of the temple.” 8 And the
priests agreed that they would neither receive more money from
the people, nor repair the damages of the temple.
9 Then Jehoiada the priest took a
chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side
as one comes into the house of the Lord; and the priests who kept the door
put there all the money brought into the house of the Lord. 10 So
it was, whenever they saw that there was much money in the
chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest came up and put it in bags,
and counted the money that was found in the house of the Lord. 11 Then
they gave the money, which had been apportioned, into the hands of those who
did the work, who had the oversight of the house of the Lord; and they
paid it out to the carpenters and builders who worked on the house of
the Lord, 12 and to masons and stonecutters,
and for buying timber and hewn stone, to repair the damage of the house of
the Lord, and for all that was paid out to repair the temple. 13 However
there were not made for the house of the Lord basins of silver,
trimmers, sprinkling-bowls, trumpets, any articles of gold or articles of
silver, from the money brought into the house of the Lord. 14 But
they gave that to the workmen, and they repaired the house of
the Lord with it. 15 Moreover they did
not require an account from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to
be paid to workmen, for they dealt faithfully. 16 The
money from the trespass offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not
brought into the house of the Lord. It belonged to the priests.
Hazael Threatens Jerusalem
17 Hazael king of Syria went up and
fought against Gath, and took it; then Hazael set his face to go up to
Jerusalem. 18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all
the sacred things that his fathers, Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, kings
of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred things, and all the gold found in
the treasuries of the house of the Lord and in the king’s house, and
sent them to Hazael king of Syria. Then he went away from
Jerusalem.
Death of Joash
19 Now the rest of the acts of Joash,[c] and all that he
did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah?
20 And his servants arose and formed
a conspiracy, and killed Joash in the house of the Millo,[d] which goes down to
Silla. 21 For Jozachar[e] the son of Shimeath
and Jehozabad the son of Shomer,[f] his servants, struck
him. So he died, and they buried him with his fathers in the City of David.
Then Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
Jehoahaz Reigns in Israel
13 In the twenty-third year of Joash[g] the son of Ahaziah,
king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu became king over Israel in
Samaria, and reigned seventeen years. 2 And
he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and followed the sins of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin. He did not depart from them.
3 Then the anger of
the Lord was aroused against Israel, and He delivered them into the
hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Ben-Hadad the son of Hazael,
all their days. 4 So Jehoahaz
pleaded with the Lord, and the Lord listened to him; for He saw
the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them. 5 Then
the Lord gave Israel a deliverer, so that they escaped from under the
hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents as
before. 6 Nevertheless they did not depart from the
sins of the house of Jeroboam, who had made Israel sin, but walked
in them; and the wooden image[h] also remained in
Samaria. 7 For He left of the army of Jehoahaz only
fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers; for the king of
Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.
8 Now the rest of the acts of
Jehoahaz, all that he did, and his might, are they not written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 9 So
Jehoahaz rested with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. Then Joash
his son reigned in his place.
Jehoash Reigns in Israel
10 In the thirty-seventh year of
Joash king of Judah, Jehoash[i] the son of Jehoahaz
became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen
years. 11 And he did evil in the sight of
the Lord. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made Israel sin, but walked in them.
12 Now the rest of the acts of Joash,
all that he did, and his might with which he fought against Amaziah king of
Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel? 13 So Joash rested with his
fathers. Then Jeroboam sat on his throne. And Joash was buried in Samaria with
the kings of Israel.
Death of Elisha
14 Elisha had become sick with the
illness of which he would die. Then Joash the king of Israel came down to him,
and wept over his face, and said, “O my father, my father, the chariots of
Israel and their horsemen!”
15 And Elisha said to him, “Take a
bow and some arrows.” So he took himself a bow and some arrows. 16 Then
he said to the king of Israel, “Put your hand on the bow.” So he put his
hand on it, and Elisha put his hands on the king’s
hands. 17 And he said, “Open the east window”; and
he opened it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot”; and he shot. And he
said, “The arrow of the Lord’s deliverance and the arrow of deliverance
from Syria; for you must strike the Syrians at Aphek till you have
destroyed them.” 18 Then he said, “Take
the arrows”; so he took them. And he said to the king of
Israel, “Strike the ground”; so he struck three times, and stopped. 19 And
the man of God was angry with him, and said, “You should have struck five or
six times; then you would have struck Syria till you had destroyed it! But
now you will strike Syria only three times.”
20 Then Elisha died, and they buried
him. And the raiding bands from Moab invaded the land in the
spring of the year. 21 So it was, as they were
burying a man, that suddenly they spied a band of raiders; and
they put the man in the tomb of Elisha; and when the man was let down and
touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and stood on his feet.
Israel Recaptures Cities from Syria
22 And Hazael king of Syria oppressed
Israel all the days of Jehoahaz. 23 But
the Lord was gracious to them, had compassion on them, and regarded
them, because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not yet
destroy them or cast them from His presence.
24 Now Hazael king of Syria died.
Then Ben-Hadad his son reigned in his place. 25 And
Jehoash[j] the son of Jehoahaz
recaptured from the hand of Ben-Hadad, the son of Hazael, the cities which he
had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times Joash
defeated him and recaptured the cities of Israel.
2 Chronicles 24New King James Version (NKJV)
Joash Repairs the Temple
24 Joash was seven years old
when he became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s
name was Zibiah of Beersheba. 2 Joash
did what was right in the sight of the Lord all the
days of Jehoiada the priest. 3 And Jehoiada took
two wives for him, and he had sons and daughters.
4 Now it happened after this that Joash
set his heart on repairing the house of the Lord. 5 Then
he gathered the priests and the Levites, and said to them, “Go out to the
cities of Judah, and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your
God from year to year, and see that you do it quickly.”
However the Levites did not do it quickly. 6 So
the king called Jehoiada the chief priest, and said to him,
“Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and from
Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of
Moses the servant of the Lord and of the assembly of Israel, for the
tabernacle of witness?” 7 For the sons of Athaliah,
that wicked woman, had broken into the house of God, and had also presented all
the dedicated things of the house of the Lord to the Baals.
8 Then at the king’s command they
made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the house of
the Lord. 9 And they made a proclamation
throughout Judah and Jerusalem to bring to the Lord the
collection that Moses the servant of God had imposed on
Israel in the wilderness. 10 Then all the leaders
and all the people rejoiced, brought their contributions, and put them into
the chest until all had given. 11 So it was, at
that time, when the chest was brought to the king’s official by the hand of the
Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, that the
king’s scribe and the high priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and
took it and returned it to its place. Thus they did day by day, and gathered
money in abundance.
12 The king and Jehoiada gave it to
those who did the work of the service of the house of the Lord; and they
hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the Lord, and also
those who worked in iron and bronze to restore the house of
the Lord. 13 So the workmen labored, and the
work was completed by them; they restored the house of God to its original
condition and reinforced it. 14 When they had
finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada; they
made from it articles for the house of the Lord, articles for serving and
offering, spoons and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt
offerings in the house of the Lord continually all the days of
Jehoiada.
Apostasy of Joash
15 But Jehoiada grew old and was full
of days, and he died; he was one hundred and thirty years old
when he died. 16 And they buried him in the City of
David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God and
His house.
17 Now after the death of Jehoiada
the leaders of Judah came and bowed down to the king. And the king listened to
them. 18 Therefore they left the house of
the Lord God of their fathers, and served wooden images and idols;
and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem because of their trespass. 19 Yet
He sent prophets to them, to bring them back to the Lord; and they
testified against them, but they would not listen.
20 Then the Spirit of God came upon
Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood above the people, and said
to them, “Thus says God: ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of
the Lord, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken
the Lord, He also has forsaken you.’” 21 So
they conspired against him, and at the command of the king they stoned him with
stones in the court of the house of the Lord. 22 Thus
Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done
to him, but killed his son; and as he died, he said, “The Lord look
on it, and repay!”
Death of Joash
23 So it happened in the spring of
the year that the army of Syria came up against him; and they
came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the leaders of the people from
among the people, and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus. 24 For
the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; but
the Lord delivered a very great army into their hand, because they
had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers. So they executed judgment
against Joash. 25 And when they had withdrawn from
him (for they left him severely wounded), his own servants conspired against
him because of the blood of the sons[a] of Jehoiada the
priest, and killed him on his bed. So he died. And they buried him in the City
of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.
26 These are the ones who conspired
against him: Zabad[b] the son of Shimeath
the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith[c] the Moabitess. 27 Now concerning his
sons, and the many oracles about him, and the repairing of the house of God,
indeed they are written in the annals of the book of the
kings. Then Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
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