Thematic Bible




2 Kings 12:1 (show verse)

Joash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu. And he reigned forty years in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

2 Kings 12:2 (show verse)

And Joash did that which was right in the eyes of LORD all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

2 Kings 12:3 (show verse)

However the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

2 Kings 12:4 (show verse)

And Joash said to the priests, All the money of the hallowed things that is brought into the house of LORD, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it come in any man's heart to

2 Kings 12:5 (show verse)

let the priests take it to them, every man from his acquaintance, and they shall repair the broken parts of the house wherever any breach shall be found.

2 Kings 12:6 (show verse)

But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of king Joash the priests had not repaired the broken parts of the house.

2 Kings 12:7 (show verse)

Then king Joash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the [other] priests, and said to them, Why do ye not repair the broken parts of the house? Now therefore take no [more] money from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the br

2 Kings 12:8 (show verse)

And the priests consented that they should take no [more] money from the people, neither repair the broken parts of the house.

2 Kings 12:9 (show verse)

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 a man comes into the house of LORD. And the priests who kept the threshold put in it all the money that was

2 Kings 12:10 (show verse)

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 counted the money that was found in the house of LORD.

2 Kings 12:11 (show verse)

And they gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of LORD. And they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked upon the house of LORD,

2 Kings 12:12 (show verse)

and to the masons and the hewers of stone, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the broken parts of the house of LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

2 Kings 12:13 (show verse)

But there were not made for the house of LORD cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of LORD,

2 Kings 12:14 (show verse)

for they gave that to those who did the work, and with it repaired the house of LORD.

2 Kings 12:15 (show verse)

Moreover they did not reckon with the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work, for they dealt faithfully.

2 Kings 12:16 (show verse)

The money for the trespass-offerings, and the money for the sin-offerings, was not brought into the house of LORD; it was the priests'.

2 Kings 12:17 (show verse)

Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it. And Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.

2 Kings 12:18 (show verse)

And Joash 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 o

2 Kings 12:19 (show verse)

Now 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?

2 Kings 12:20 (show verse)

And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and smote Joash at the house of Millo, [on the way] that goes down to Silla.

2 Kings 12:21 (show verse)

For Jozacar 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.