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2 Kings 12:1-21 — Joash Repairs the Temple

2Kgs.12.1-21

¹Jehoash was seven years old when he became king. ²In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba. ³Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all his days, as long as Jehoiada the priest instructed him. ⁴Yet the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. ⁵Jehoash said to the priests, "All the silver of the holy gifts that is brought into the house of the LORD—the assessment silver, the silver for persons according to each man’s valuation, and all the silver that comes into a man’s heart to bring into the house of the LORD— ⁶let the priests take it, each from his acquaintance, and let them repair the damage to the house wherever any damage is found there." ⁷But by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had not repaired the damage to the house. ⁸So King Jehoash called Jehoiada the priest and the priests and said to them, “Why are you not repairing the damage to the house? Now then, take no more silver from your acquaintances, but hand it over for the damage to the house.” ⁹And the priests agreed that they would neither take silver from the people nor repair the damage to the house. ¹⁰Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right as one enters the house of the LORD. And the priests who guarded the threshold put there all the silver brought into the house of the LORD. ¹¹Whenever they saw that there was much silver in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they tied up and counted the silver found in the house of the LORD. ¹²Then they gave the silver that had been weighed into the hands of the workmen who were appointed over the house of the LORD, and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the house of the LORD, ¹³and to the masons and the stonecutters, and for buying timber and quarried stone to repair the damage to the house of the LORD, and for all that was spent on the house to repair it. ¹⁴However, no silver bowls, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets, or any article of gold or article of silver was made for the house of the LORD from the silver brought into the house of the LORD. ¹⁵For they gave it to the workmen, and with it they repaired the house of the LORD. ¹⁶They did not settle accounts with the men into whose hands they gave the silver to pass on to the workmen, for they acted faithfully. ¹⁷The silver from the guilt offerings and the silver from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it belonged to the priests. ¹⁸Then Hazael king of Aram went up and fought against Gath and captured it, and Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem. ¹⁹So Jehoash king of Judah took all the consecrated things that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah his fathers, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, together with his own consecrated things, and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Aram. Then Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem. ²⁰Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? ²¹And his servants rose up, formed a conspiracy, and struck Jehoash at Beth Millo on the way down to Silla.

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4/11/2026

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