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    2 Kings 12

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    Jerusalem is under attack, and Joash answers by sending away the gold from the temple and the palace; Hazael then withdraws, leaving the repair fund with a rather larger story than anyone budgeted for.

    A repair fund that waits twenty-three yearsvv. 1–8

    Joash reigns in Jerusalem for forty years, and does what is right while Jehoiada instructs him. The high places, however, remain cheerfully in place. Joash assigns the priests the sacred money for temple repairs, but by his twenty-third year the damage is still there, looking remarkably untroubled by the plan. The priests agree to stop receiving the money and, with equal decisiveness, to stop repairing the temple themselves.

    The chest with the hole in its lidvv. 9–16

    Jehoiada introduces a splendidly practical arrangement: a chest, a bored lid, and a position beside the altar. The threshold guards put in the money; the royal scribe and the high priest count it and tie it into bags; supervisors pay carpenters, builders, masons, and stonecutters. The money buys timber and dressed stone, while silver basins, wick trimmers, bowls, trumpets, and articles of gold or silver are left out of the account. No accounting is required from the men paying the workmen, because they act with integrity. The guilt offerings and sin offerings, meanwhile, take a different route and belong to the priests.

    The treasury changes handsvv. 17–21

    Hazael captures Gath and turns towards Jerusalem. Joash responds by gathering the sacred objects dedicated by Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, adding his own consecrated items and all the gold in the temple and palace treasuries, and sending the lot to Hazael. Hazael withdraws from Jerusalem. Later, Joash's servants form a conspiracy and kill him at Beth-millo, on the road down to Silla. Jehozabad and Jozabad strike him down; Amaziah succeeds him, while the chapter leaves the fuller account of Joash's acts to another book.

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    1. 2 Kgs 12:1In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.

    2. 2 Kgs 12:2And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days he was instructed by Jehoiada the priest.

    3. 2 Kgs 12:3Nevertheless, the high places were not removed; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.

    4. 2 Kgs 12:4Then Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money brought as sacred gifts into the house of the LORD—the census money, the money from vows, and the money brought voluntarily into the house of the LORD.

    5. 2 Kgs 12:5Let every priest receive it from his constituency, and let it be used to repair any damage found in the temple.”

    6. 2 Kgs 12:6By the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash, however, the priests had not yet repaired the damage to the temple.

    7. 2 Kgs 12:7So King Joash called Jehoiada and the other priests and said, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, therefore, take no more money from your constituency, but hand it over for the repair of the temple.”

    8. 2 Kgs 12:8So the priests agreed that they would not receive money from the people and that they would not repair the temple themselves.

    9. 2 Kgs 12:9Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the house of the LORD. There the priests who guarded the threshold put all the money brought into the house of the LORD.

    10. 2 Kgs 12:10Whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the royal scribe and the high priest would go up, count the money brought into the house of the LORD, and tie it up in bags.

    11. 2 Kgs 12:11Then they would put the counted money into the hands of those who supervised the work on the house of the LORD, who in turn would pay those doing the work—the carpenters, builders,

    12. 2 Kgs 12:12masons, and stonecutters. They also purchased timber and dressed stone to repair the damage to the house of the LORD, and they paid the other expenses of the temple repairs.

    13. 2 Kgs 12:13However, the money brought into the house of the LORD was not used for making silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets, or any articles of gold or silver for the house of the LORD.

    14. 2 Kgs 12:14Instead, it was paid to those doing the work, and with it they repaired the house of the LORD.

    15. 2 Kgs 12:15No accounting was required from the men who received the money to pay the workmen, because they acted with integrity.

    16. 2 Kgs 12:16The money from the guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.

    17. 2 Kgs 12:17At that time Hazael king of Aram marched up and fought against Gath and captured it. Then he decided to attack Jerusalem.

    18. 2 Kgs 12:18So King Joash of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his fathers—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—along with his own consecrated items and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram. So Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.

    19. 2 Kgs 12:19As for the rest of the acts of Joash, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

    20. 2 Kgs 12:20And the servants of Joash rose up and formed a conspiracy and killed him at Beth-millo, on the road down to Silla.

    21. 2 Kgs 12:21His servants Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer struck him down, and he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the City of David, and his son Amaziah reigned in his place.

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 42 Kings 22:4“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him count the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people.
    • 32 Kings 14:4Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
    • 9Mark 12:41As Jesus was sitting opposite the treasury, He watched the crowd putting money into it. And many rich people put in large amounts.
    • 4Exodus 30:12–16“When you take a census of the Israelites to number them, each man must pay the LORD a ransom for his life when he is counted. Then no plague will come upon them when they are numbered.
    • 4Exodus 35:5Take from among you an offering to the LORD. Let everyone whose heart is willing bring an offering to the LORD: gold, silver, and bronze;
    • 132 Chronicles 24:14When they were finished, they brought the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada, and with it were made articles for the house of the LORD—utensils for the service and for the burnt offerings, dishes, and other objects of gold and silver. Throughout the days of Jehoiada, burnt offerings were presented regularly in the house of the LORD.
    • 152 Kings 22:7But they need not account for the money put into their hands, since they work with integrity.”
    • 16Leviticus 7:7The guilt offering is like the sin offering; the same law applies to both. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.
    • 181 Kings 15:18So Asa withdrew all the silver and gold that remained in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace. He entrusted it to his servants and sent them with this message to Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, the king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus:
    • 41 Chronicles 29:3–9Moreover, because of my delight in the house of my God, I now give for it my personal treasures of gold and silver, over and above all that I have provided for this holy temple:
    • 102 Samuel 8:17Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Seraiah was the scribe;
    • 16Leviticus 5:15–18“If someone acts unfaithfully and sins unintentionally against any of the LORD’s holy things, he must bring his guilt offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram from the flock, of proper value in silver shekels according to the sanctuary shekel; it is a guilt offering.
    • 172 Chronicles 24:23–24In the spring, the army of Aram went to war against Joash. They entered Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the leaders of the people, and they sent all the plunder to their king in Damascus.
    • 182 Kings 18:15–16Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace.
    • 202 Chronicles 24:24–27Although the Aramean army had come with only a few men, the LORD delivered into their hand a very great army. Because Judah had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, judgment was executed on Joash.
    • 202 Kings 14:5As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah executed the servants who had murdered his father the king.

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