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2 Kings 12 Unlocked Literal Bible
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1 In the seventh year of Jehu, the reign of Joash began; he reigned for forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah, of Beersheba.
1 Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2 Joash did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh all the time, because Jehoiada the priest was instructing him.
2 Jehoash did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes all his 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.
3 However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
4 Joash said to the priests, “All the money that is brought in as sacred offerings into the house of Yahweh, that money for which each person is assessed—whether it is the money collected in the census, or the money received from personal vows, or the money brought in by people motivated by Yahweh in their hearts to give—
4 Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into Yahweh’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated, and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into Yahweh’s house,
5 the priests should receive the money from one of their treasurers and repair whatever damage is found in the temple.”
5 let the priests take it to them, each man from his donor; and they shall repair the damage to the house, wherever any damage is found.”
6 But by the twenty-third year of King Joash, the priests had not repaired anything in the temple.
6 But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house.
7 Then King Joash called for Jehoiada the priest and for the other priests; he said to them, “Why have you not repaired anything in the temple? Now take no more money from your taxpayers, but take what has been collected for repairs of the temple and give it to those who can make the repairs.”
7 Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage to the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the damage to the house.”
8 So the priests consented to take no more money from the people and not repair the temple themselves.
8 The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house.
9 Instead, 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 Yahweh. The priests who were guarding the temple entrance put into it all the money that was brought to the house of Yahweh.
9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into Yahweh’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house into it.
10 Whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest would come and put the money in bags and then count it, the money found in the temple of Yahweh.
10 When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put it in bags and counted the money that was found in Yahweh’s house.
11 They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of men who took care of the temple of Yahweh. They paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the temple of Yahweh,
11 They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on Yahweh’s house,
12 and to the masons and the stonecutters, for buying timber and cutting stone to repair the temple of Yahweh, and for all that was needed to be paid to repair it.
12 and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to Yahweh’s house, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
13 But the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh did not pay to make for it any silver cups, lamp trimmers, basins, trumpets, or any gold or silver furnishing.
13 But there were not made for Yahweh’s house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house;
14 They gave this money to those who did the work of repairing the house of Yahweh.
14 for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired Yahweh’s house with it.
15 In addition, they did not require the money paid for repairs to be accounted for by the men who received it and paid it to the workmen, because these men were honest.
15 Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.
16 But the money for the guilt offerings and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into the temple of Yahweh, because it belonged to the priests.
16 The money for the trespass offerings and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into Yahweh’s house. It was the priests’.
17 Then Hazael king of Aram attacked and fought against Gath, and took it. Hazael then turned to attack Jerusalem.
17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
18 Joash king of Judah took all the things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had set apart, and what he had set apart, and all the gold that was found in the storerooms of the houses of Yahweh and of the king and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram. Then Hazael went away from Jerusalem.
18 Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and of the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem.
19 As for the other matters concerning Joash, all that he did, are they not written in the book of the events of the kings of Judah?
19 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
20 His servants arose and plotted together; they attacked Joash in Beth Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
20 His servants arose and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
21 Jozabad son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad son of Shomer, his servants, attacked him, and he died. They buried Joash with his ancestors in the city of David, and Amaziah, his son, became king in his place.
21 For Jozacar 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 David’s city; and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Amaziah
Joash's son, who became king at twenty-five and reigned twenty-nine years, executed his father's murderers, struck down 10,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt, was routed by…
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 12:21; 2 Kings 14:1; 2 Kings 14:7
Jehozabad
A servant of Joash, called 'son of Shomer', who struck Joash down at Beth-millo.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 12:21; 2 Chronicles 24:26
Joash
Son of Ahaziah, hidden for six years in the house of the LORD, crowned at seven by Jehoiada, who reigned forty years, repaired the temple, bought off Hazael with the temple…
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 11:2; 2 Kings 11:19; 2 Kings 12:1
Jozabad
A servant of Joash, called 'son of Shimeath', who struck Joash down at Beth-millo.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 12:21; 2 Chronicles 24:26
Zibiah
A woman of Beersheba named as the mother of King Joash of Judah.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 12:1; 2 Chronicles 24:1
Cross references (19)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Kings 11:21; 1 Chronicles 3:11; 2 Kings 9:27; 2 Kings 11:1–4; 2 Chronicles 24:1–14
- 2 2 Chronicles 24:17–22; 2 Kings 14:3; 2 Chronicles 25:2; 2 Chronicles 26:4; 2 Chronicles 24:2
- 3 2 Kings 14:4; 2 Kings 15:35; 1 Kings 15:14; 2 Kings 18:4; 1 Kings 22:43
- 4 2 Kings 22:4; Exodus 30:12–16; Exodus 35:5; Exodus 35:29; 1 Chronicles 29:3–9
- 5 Isaiah 58:12; 1 Kings 11:27; 2 Chronicles 24:5; 2 Kings 22:5–6; 2 Kings 12:12
- 6 Malachi 1:10; 1 Samuel 2:29–30; Philippians 2:21; Isaiah 56:10–12; 2 Chronicles 29:34
- 7 2 Kings 11:4; 2 Chronicles 24:5–14; 2 Kings 12:2; 2 Chronicles 24:16; 2 Chronicles 23:1
- 9 Mark 12:41; 1 Chronicles 15:24; Psalm 84:10; Jeremiah 35:4; Luke 21:1
- 10 2 Samuel 8:17; 2 Kings 22:12; 2 Kings 19:2; 2 Samuel 20:25; 2 Kings 5:23
- 11 2 Chronicles 34:9–11; 2 Kings 22:5–6; 2 Chronicles 24:11–12
- 12 2 Kings 22:5–6; 1 Kings 5:17–18; Luke 21:5; Ezra 5:8; Ezra 3:7
- 13 2 Chronicles 24:14; 1 Kings 7:48–50; Numbers 7:13–14; Ezra 1:9–11; Numbers 10:2
- 15 2 Kings 22:7; Nehemiah 7:2; Luke 16:1; 2 Chronicles 34:12; 1 Corinthians 4:2–3
- 16 Leviticus 7:7; Leviticus 5:15–18; Leviticus 4:24; Leviticus 4:29; Hosea 4:8
- 17 2 Chronicles 24:23–24; 1 Kings 2:39–40; Jeremiah 42:15; Luke 9:53; 2 Kings 8:12–15
- 18 1 Kings 15:18; 2 Kings 18:15–16; 2 Kings 12:4; 2 Chronicles 16:2; 2 Kings 16:8
- 19 1 Kings 14:29; 1 Kings 14:19; 2 Kings 8:23; 1 Kings 11:41
- 20 2 Chronicles 24:24–27; 2 Kings 14:5; 2 Samuel 5:9; Judges 9:6; 1 Kings 11:27
- 21 2 Chronicles 24:26–27; 2 Kings 14:1
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