﻿2 Kings.
Chapter 12.
In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba. 
Jehoash did what was right in the sight of the LORD all the days that Jehoiada the priest instructed him. 
Yet the high places were not removed. The people still sacrificed and burned incense at the high places. 
Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money from the consecrated offerings brought into the house of the LORD—the census money, the money from each person’s assessed value, and all the money anyone is moved in his heart to bring to the house of the LORD— 
the priests are to receive, each from his own acquaintances. They are to repair the damage to the house wherever damage is found.” 
But by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had not repaired the damage to the house. 
So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and said to them, “Why are you not repairing the damage to the house? Now stop taking money from your acquaintances, but hand it over for repairing the house.” 
The priests agreed that they would no longer take money from the people and would no longer be responsible for repairing the damage to the house. 
Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and placed it beside the altar, on the right as one enters the house of the LORD. The priests who guarded the threshold put into it all the money brought into the house of the LORD. 
Whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the king’s secretary and the high priest came up, bagged it, and counted the money found in the house of the LORD. 
They handed over the weighed money to the men appointed to oversee the work on the house of the LORD. These paid it out to the carpenters and builders working on the house of the LORD, 
to the masons and stonecutters, and to buy timber and cut stone to repair the damage to the house of the LORD, and for every expense of repairing the house. 
But the money brought into the house of the LORD was not used to make silver bowls, wick trimmers, basins, trumpets, or any gold or silver articles for the house of the LORD. 
Instead, they gave it to the workers, who used it to repair the house of the LORD. 
They did not require an accounting from the men into whose hands they put the money to pay the workers, for they dealt faithfully. 
The money from guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD. It belonged to the priests. 
At that time Hazael king of Aram went up, fought against Gath, and captured it. Then Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem. 
Jehoash king of Judah took all the things that his ancestors Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, had consecrated, along with his own consecrated things and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the king’s palace. He sent them to Hazael king of Aram, who withdrew from Jerusalem. 
As for 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? 
His servants rose up, formed a conspiracy, and struck Joash down at Beth-millo, on the descent to Silla. 
His servants Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer struck him, and he died. They buried him with his ancestors in the City of David, and his son Amaziah reigned in his place. 
