The Money Collected to Repair the Lord's House |
2 Kings 12:1-21 2 Kings [in Smaller Chunks] |
In the 7th year [Jehu ruled,] Joash [a.k.a. Jehoash,] began to [rule & he ruled] 40 years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Ziba of BeerSheba. Jehoash did what was right in the sight of the Lord all the days [that] Jehoiada, the priest, instructed him. |
But the high places where people still sacrificed & burnt incense [to false gods] in the high places, weren't taken away. |
Joash said to the priests, Let the priests take all the money that was brought to the Lord's house [for: sacred offerings, collected in the census, received from vows, or free-will offerings]. |
Let the priests take it & it to [acquaintances they know] to repair the [damages of the Lord's house, that they find]. In the 23rd year [Joash ruled,] the priest's hadn't repaired the [damage] of the [Lord's] house. |
King Joash, called for the priests, Jehoiada & the other priests & said to them, Why [haven't you] repaired the [damage] of the [Lord's] house? Therefore, don't give your acquaintances [any] more money, but deliver it for the [damage] of the [Lord's] house. |
And the priests [agreed] not to receive [any] more money [from] the people [& not] to repair the [damage of the Lord's] house. But [instead,] Jehoiada, the priest, took a chest & [drilled] a hole in the lid & set it beside the altar on the right side, as one comes into the house of the Lord. |
The priests [who] kept the door, put [in it] all the money that was brought into the [Lord's] house. When they saw there was much money in the chest, the king's scribe & the high priest came & put it into bags & [counted] the money found [in the chest] in the [Lord's] house. |
They [weighed it out] & gave the money into the hand of [those who] did the work & had oversight of [the repairs of] the [Lord's] house. |
They [paid] it to the carpenters & builders, masons & stone cutters, to buy [lumber] & [cut] stone, & for all that was [paid] out [to those who worked] to repair the [damage] of the [Lord's] house. |
[But] there weren't silver bowls, [candle] snuffers, basins, trumpets & gold & silver vessels made for the [Lord's] house [from] the money [collected]. But they gave that [money] to the workmen [who] repaired the [Lord's] house. |
[Also, they didn't have to watch over] the men [they gave the money to for the] workmen, [because] they dealt faithfully, The money for the trespass & sin [offerings wasn't] brought into the [Lord's] house. It was the priests]. |
Then, Hazael, [Syria's] king, went up & fought against Gath & [captured] it & Hazael [set his mind on going] up to Jerusalem. |
And Joash, [Judah's] king, took all the [holy] things that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, Ahaziah & his [forefathers,] kings of Judah had dedicated & his own [holy] things & all the gold found in the treasury of the [Lord's] house & the king's house & sent it Hazael, [Syria's] king & [Hazael] went away. |
[Aren't] the rest of the [actions] of Joash & all he did, written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? [Joash's] servants arose & [conspired & killed] Joash in the house of Millo, that goes down to Silla. |
[Those who killed him were:] Jozachar, [Shimeath's] son; Jehozabad, [Shomer's] son & his servants. They buried [Joash] with his [forefathers] in the city of David & Amaziah, his son [ruled] in his [place]. |