2 Kings 12 - World Messianic Bible(WMB)

1 Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

2Jehoash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

3However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

4Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into the LORD’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated,, any vessels of gold or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the LORD’s house;

14for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired the LORD’s house with it.

15Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.

16The money for the trespass offerings and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into the LORD’s house. It was the priests’.

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

18Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the LORD’s house, and of the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem.

19 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

20His servants arose and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.

21For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city; and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.