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2 Kings 12:1 (GW)
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Joash began to rule in Jehu’s seventh year as king of Israel, and he ruled for 40 years in Jerusalem. His mother was Zibiah from Beersheba.

2 Kings 12:2 (GW)
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Joash did what the Lord considered right, as long as the priest Jehoiada instructed him.

2 Kings 12:3 (GW)
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But the illegal places of worship weren’t torn down. The people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense at these worship sites.

2 Kings 12:4 (GW)
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Joash told the priests, “Collect all the holy contributions that are brought into the Lord’s temple—the money each person is currently required to bring and all the money brought voluntarily to the Lord’s temple.

2 Kings 12:5 (GW)
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Each of the priests should receive it from the donors and use it to make repairs on the temple where they are needed.”

2 Kings 12:6 (GW)
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But by Joash’s twenty-third year as king, the priests still had not repaired the temple.

2 Kings 12:7 (GW)
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So King Joash called for Jehoiada and the other priests and asked them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage in the temple? Don’t take any more money from the donors for your own use. Instead, use it to make repairs on the temple.”

2 Kings 12:8 (GW)
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The priests agreed neither to receive money from the people for personal use nor to be responsible for repairing the temple.

2 Kings 12:9 (GW)
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Then the priest Jehoiada took a box, drilled a hole in its lid, and put it at the right side of the altar as one comes into the Lord’s temple. The priests who guarded the entrance put the money that was brought to the Lord’s temple in the box.

2 Kings 12:10 (GW)
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Whenever they saw a lot of money in the box, the king’s scribe and the chief priest would collect and count the money that was donated in the Lord’s temple.

2 Kings 12:11 (GW)
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Then they would give the money that had been weighed to the men who had been appointed to work on the Lord’s temple. They used it to pay the carpenters, builders,

2 Kings 12:12 (GW)
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masons, and stonecutters. They also used it to buy wood and cut stones to make repairs on the Lord’s temple and to buy anything else that they needed for the temple repairs.

2 Kings 12:13 (GW)
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But no silver bowls, snuffers, dishes, trumpets, or any other gold and silver utensils were made for the Lord’s temple with the money that was brought.

2 Kings 12:14 (GW)
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Instead, the money was given to the workmen, and they used it to repair the temple.

2 Kings 12:15 (GW)
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They didn’t require the men who were entrusted with the money for the workers to give an account, because they were honest people.

2 Kings 12:16 (GW)
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The money from the guilt offerings and the offerings for sin was not brought into the Lord’s temple. It belonged to the priests.

2 Kings 12:17 (GW)
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At this time King Hazael of Aram fought against Gath and conquered it. He was also determined to attack Jerusalem.

2 Kings 12:18 (GW)
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So King Joash of Judah took all the gifts his ancestors Kings Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah of Judah, had dedicated to the Lord, the things he had dedicated to the Lord, and all the gold that could be found in the storerooms of the Lord’s temple and the royal palace. He sent these things to King Hazael of Aram, who called off the attack on Jerusalem.

2 Kings 12:19 (GW)
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Isn’t everything else about Joash—everything he did—written in the official records of the kings of Judah?

2 Kings 12:20 (GW)
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His own officials plotted against him and killed him at Beth Millo on the road that goes down to Silla.

2 Kings 12:21 (GW)
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Joash’s officials Jozacar, son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad, son of Shomer, executed him. They buried him with his ancestors in the City of David. His son Amaziah succeeded him as king.

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