1 In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and
forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zibiah
of Beersheba.
2 And
Jehoash did that which was right
in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed
him.
3 But
the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt
incense in the high places.
4 And
Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is
brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all
the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,
5 Let
the priests take it to them, every man of his
acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach
shall be found.
6 But
it was so, that in
the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the
breaches of the house.
7 Then
king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests,
and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore
receive no more money
of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
8 And
the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair
the breaches of the house.
9 But
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 cometh into the house of the LORD:
and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought
into the house of the LORD.
10 And
it was so, when they saw that there was much
money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and
they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the
LORD.
11 And
they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that
had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they laid it out to the
carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD,
12 And
to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the
breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house
to repair it.
13 Howbeit
there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers,
basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought
into the house of the LORD:
14 But
they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the LORD.
15 Moreover
they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be
bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
16 The
trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was
the priests'.
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 And
Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and
Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own
hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of
the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went
away from Jerusalem.
19 And
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?
20 And
his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of
Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
21 For
Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants,
smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of
David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
