(KJV) 2 Kings 12¹

⥃Joash Repairs the Temple ^{[ 2 Chronicles 24:1–14 ]}

[1] In the seventh² year of Jehu Jehoash³ began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name [was] Zibiah of Beer–sheba. [2] And Jehoash did [that which was] right in the sight of the Lord all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.⁴ [3] But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.⁵

[4] And Jehoash said to the priests⁶, All the money⁷ of the dedicated things⁸ that is brought into the house of the Lord, [even] the money⁹ of every one that passeth [the account], the money that every man is set at¹⁰, [and] all the money¹¹ that cometh¹² into any man’s heart to bring into the house of the Lord,¹³ [5] Let the priests¹⁴ take [it] to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair¹⁵ the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found. [6] But it was [so], [that] in the three and twentieth year¹⁶ of king Jehoash the priests¹⁷ had not repaired the breaches of the house. [7] Then king Jehoash¹⁸ called for Jehoiada¹⁹ the priest, and the [other] priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye²⁰ not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no [more] money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house. [8] And the priests consented to receive no [more] money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house. [9] But Jehoiada the priest took a chest²¹, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside²² the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the Lord: and the priests²³ that kept the door²⁴ put therein all the money [that was] brought into the house of the Lord. [10] And it was [so], when they saw that [there was] much money in the chest, that the king’s²⁵ scribe²⁶ and the high priest came up, and they put up²⁷ in bags²⁸, and told the money that was found in the house of the Lord. [11] And they gave the money²⁹, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the Lord: and they laid it out³⁰ to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the Lord, [12] And to masons³¹, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the Lord, and for all that was laid out³² for the house to repair [it]. [13] Howbeit there were not³³ made for the house of the Lord bowls³⁴ of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets³⁵, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money [that was] brought into the house of the Lord: [14] But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the Lord. [15] Moreover they reckoned³⁶ not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt³⁷ faithfully. [16] The trespass money³⁸ and sin money was not brought into the house of the Lord: it was the priests’.

⥃The Death of Joash ^{[ 2 Chronicles 24:23–27 ]}

[17] Then Hazael³⁹ king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath⁴⁰, and took it: and Hazael set his face⁴¹ to go up to Jerusalem⁴².⁴³ [18] And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed⁴⁴ 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 of the Lord, and in the king’s house, and sent [it] to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away⁴⁵ from Jerusalem.

[19] [¶]And the rest⁴⁶ 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? [20] And his servants⁴⁷ arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo⁴⁸, which goeth down to Silla. [21] For Jozachar⁴⁹ the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer⁵⁰, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son⁵¹ reigned in his stead.