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2 Kings 12 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

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Joash Repairs the Temple
(2Ch 24:1–14 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:1 - [fn]Joash[fn] began to rule over Judah in the seventh year of King Jehu’s reign in Israel. He reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother was Zibiah from Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:2 - All his life Joash did what was pleasing in the LORD’s sight because Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:3 - Yet even so, he did not destroy the pagan shrines, and the people still offered sacrifices and burned incense there.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:4 - One day King Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money brought as a sacred offering to the LORD’s Temple, whether it is a regular assessment, a payment of vows, or a voluntary gift.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:5 - Let the priests take some of that money to pay for whatever repairs are needed at the Temple.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:6 - But by the twenty-third year of Joash’s reign, the priests still had not repaired the Temple.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:7 - So King Joash called for Jehoiada and the other priests and asked them, “Why haven’t you repaired the Temple? Don’t use any more money for your own needs. From now on, it must all be spent on Temple repairs.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:8 - So the priests agreed not to accept any more money from the people, and they also agreed to let others take responsibility for repairing the Temple.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:9 - Then Jehoiada the priest bored a hole in the lid of a large chest and set it on the right-hand side of the altar at the entrance of the Temple of the LORD. The priests guarding the entrance put all of the people’s contributions into the chest.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:10 - Whenever the chest became full, the court secretary and the high priest counted the money that had been brought to the LORD’s Temple and put it into bags.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:11 - Then they gave the money to the construction supervisors, who used it to pay the people working on the LORD’s Temple—the carpenters, the builders,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:12 - the masons, and the stonecutters. They also used the money to buy the timber and the finished stone needed for repairing the LORD’s Temple, and they paid any other expenses related to the Temple’s restoration.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:13 - The money brought to the Temple was not used for making silver bowls, lamp snuffers, basins, trumpets, or other articles of gold or silver for the Temple of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:14 - It was paid to the workmen, who used it for the Temple repairs.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:15 - No accounting of this money was required from the construction supervisors, because they were honest and trustworthy men.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:16 - However, the money that was contributed for guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the LORD’s Temple. It was given to the priests for their own use.
The End of Joash’s Reign

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:17 - About this time King Hazael of Aram went to war against Gath and captured it. Then he turned to attack Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:18 - King Joash collected all the sacred objects that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, the previous kings of Judah, had dedicated, along with what he himself had dedicated. He sent them all to Hazael, along with all the gold in the treasuries of the LORD’s Temple and the royal palace. So Hazael called off his attack on Jerusalem.
(2Ch 24:23–27 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:19 - The rest of the events in Joash’s reign and everything he did are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:20 - Joash’s officers plotted against him and assassinated him at Beth-millo on the road to Silla.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:21 - The assassins were Jozacar[fn] son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer—both trusted advisers. Joash was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. Then his son Amaziah became the next king.
See the NLT Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NLT Footnotes
Verses 12:1-21 are numbered 12:2-22 in Hebrew text.
Hebrew Jehoash, a variant spelling of Joash; also in 12:2, 4, 6, 7, 18.
As in Greek and Syriac versions; Hebrew reads Jozabad.
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