2 Kings 12
Joash Reigns over Judah, Repairs the Temple
The Invasions of Syria1
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However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
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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."
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But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house.
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Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, "Why don't you repair 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."
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The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house.
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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 The LORD's house.
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They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of The LORD's house; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on The LORD's house,
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and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to The LORD's house, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
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But there were not made for The LORD's house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into The LORD's house;
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for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired The LORD's house with it.
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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.
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The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into The LORD's house. It was the priests'.
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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 The LORD's house, and of the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem.
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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?
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His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
THE
SECOND BOOK OF THE KINGS,
COMMONLY CALLED
THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE KINGS.
Commentary by ROBERT JAMIESON
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