12:1 In
the
seventh
year
of
Jehu,
Jehoash
began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
forty
years
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother's
name
was
Zibiah
of
Beersheba.
12:2 And
Jehoash
did
what
was
right
in
the
eyes
of
the
LORD
all
his
days,
because
Jehoiada
the
priest
instructed
him.
12:3 Nevertheless,
the
high
places
were
not
taken
away;
the
people
continued
to
sacrifice
and
make
offerings
on
the
high
places.
12:4 Jehoash
said
to
the
priests,
"All
the
money
of
the
holy
things
that
is
brought
into
the
house
of
the
LORD,
the
money
for
which
each
man
is
assessed--the
money
from
the
assessment
of
persons--and
the
money
that
a
man's
heart
prompts
him
to
bring
into
the
house
of
the
LORD,
12:5 let
the
priests
take,
each
from
his
donor,
and
let
them
repair
the
house
wherever
any
need
of
repairs
is
discovered."
12:6 But
by
the
twenty-third
year
of
King
Jehoash,
the
priests
had
made
no
repairs
on
the
house.
12:7 Therefore
King
Jehoash
summoned
Jehoiada
the
priest
and
the
other
priests
and
said
to
them,
"Why
are
you
not
repairing
the
house
Now
therefore
take
no
more
money
from
your
donors,
but
hand
it
over
for
the
repair
of
the
house."
12:8 So
the
priests
agreed
that
they
should
take
no
more
money
from
the
people,
and
that
they
should
not
repair
the
house.
12:9 Then
Jehoiada
the
priest
took
a
chest
and
bored
a
hole
in
the
lid
of
it
and
set
it
beside
the
altar
on
the
right
side
as
one
entered
the
house
of
the
LORD.
And
the
priests
who
guarded
the
threshold
put
in
it
all
the
money
that
was
brought
into
the
house
of
the
LORD.
12:10 And
whenever
they
saw
that
there
was
much
money
in
the
chest,
the
king's
secretary
and
the
high
priest
came
up
and
they
bagged
and
counted
the
money
that
was
found
in
the
house
of
the
LORD.
12:11 Then
they
would
give
the
money
that
was
weighed
out
into
the
hands
of
the
workmen
who
had
the
oversight
of
the
house
of
the
LORD.
And
they
paid
it
out
to
the
carpenters
and
the
builders
who
worked
on
the
house
of
the
LORD,
12:12 and
to
the
masons
and
the
stonecutters,
as
well
as
to
buy
timber
and
quarried
stone
for
making
repairs
on
the
house
of
the
LORD,
and
for
any
outlay
for
the
repairs
of
the
house.
12:13 But
there
were
not
made
for
the
house
of
the
LORD
basins
of
silver,
snuffers,
bowls,
trumpets,
or
any
vessels
of
gold,
or
of
silver,
from
the
money
that
was
brought
into
the
house
of
the
LORD,
12:14 for
that
was
given
to
the
workmen
who
were
repairing
the
house
of
the
LORD
with
it.
12:15 And
they
did
not
ask
an
accounting
from
the
men
into
whose
hand
they
delivered
the
money
to
pay
out
to
the
workmen,
for
they
dealt
honestly.
12:16 The
money
from
the
guilt
offerings
and
the
money
from
the
sin
offerings
was
not
brought
into
the
house
of
the
LORD;
it
belonged
to
the
priests.
12:17 At
that
time
Hazael
king
of
Syria
went
up
and
fought
against
Gath
and
took
it.
But
when
Hazael
set
his
face
to
go
up
against
Jerusalem,
12:18 Jehoash
king
of
Judah
took
all
the
sacred
gifts
that
Jehoshaphat
and
Jehoram
and
Ahaziah
his
fathers,
the
kings
of
Judah,
had
dedicated,
and
his
own
sacred
gifts,
and
all
the
gold
that
was
found
in
the
treasuries
of
the
house
of
the
LORD
and
of
the
king's
house,
and
sent
these
to
Hazael
king
of
Syria.
Then
Hazael
went
away
from
Jerusalem.
12:19 Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Joash
and
all
that
he
did,
are
they
not
written
in
the
Book
of
the
Chronicles
of
the
Kings
of
Judah
12:20 His
servants
arose
and
made
a
conspiracy
and
struck
down
Joash
in
the
house
of
Millo,
on
the
way
that
goes
down
to
Silla.
12:21 It
was
Jozacar
the
son
of
Shimeath
and
Jehozabad
the
son
of
Shomer,
his
servants,
who
struck
him
down,
so
that
he
died.
And
they
buried
him
with
his
fathers
in
the
city
of
David,
and
Amaziah
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.
