2 Kings Chapter 12
So, in the seventh year of Jehu's reign, Jehoash straight up started ruling for forty years in Jerusalem. His mom was named Zibiah, hailing from Beer-sheba, no cap.
In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name {was} Zibiah of Beersheba.
As long as Jehoiada the priest was schooling him, Jehoash was totally vibing with the Lord.
And Jehoash did {that which was} right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
But those high places? Still mad sus. Folks were out here making sacrifices and burning incense there.
But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
Jehoash hit up the priests and said, "Yo, all the cash from the dedicated stuff coming into the Lord’s crib? Just take it and do your thing with it."
And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, {even} the money of every one that passeth {the account}, the money that every man is set at, {and} all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD, {dedicated things: or, holy things: Heb. holinesses} {that every...: Heb. of the souls of his estimation} {cometh...: Heb. ascendeth upon the heart of a man}
"Let the priests handle it, fam, and fix the house wherever it's leaking, for real."
Let the priests take {it} to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.
However, in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests still hadn’t patched up the leaks.
But it was {so, that} in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house. {three...: Heb. twentieth year and third year}
Then King Jehoash called out Jehoiada and the other priests, asking, "Why aren’t y’all fixing the leaks? Stop taking money from the peeps and use it for repairs."
Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the {other} priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no {more} money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
The priests were all like, "Bet, we won’t take no more cash from the people or fix the leaks."
And the priests consented to receive no {more} money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
So, Jehoiada crafted a chest, drilled a hole in it, and placed it by the altar where the door-guarding priests dropped all the cash streaming into the Lord's crib.
But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money {that was} brought into the house of the LORD. {door: Heb. threshold}
When they peeped there was a ton of cash in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest came through, scooped it up, and counted the dough found in the Lord's house.
And it was {so}, when they saw that {there was} much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD. {scribe: or, secretary} {put...: Heb. bound up}
They dished out the cash to the workers in charge of the Lord’s house, and it went to the carpenters and builders grinding on it.
And they gave the money, 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 out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD, {laid...: Heb. brought it forth}
They also funded masons and stone cutters, and copped timber and cut stone to fix the leaks in the Lord’s crib, no cap.
And to masons, 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 out for the house to repair {it}. {was...: Heb. went forth}
But no silver bowls, snuffers, basins, trumpets, or any gold/silver stuff was made with the cash coming into the Lord's house.
Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money {that was} brought into the house of the LORD:
Instead, they gave that to the workers and spruced up the Lord's crib with it.
But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the LORD.
Plus, they didn’t keep tabs on the cash given to the workers since they were straight-up loyal.
Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
The cash for trespasses and sins wasn’t brought into the Lord’s crib; that was just for the priests.
The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests'.
Then Hazael, the king of Syria, rolled through, clashed with Gath, took it down, and then set his sights on Jerusalem.
Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
Jehoash, king of Judah, gathered all the holy stuff his ancestors Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah dedicated, plus his own holy items and all the gold from the Lord’s house and the king’s crib, and sent it to Hazael, king of Syria, who bounced from Jerusalem.
And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed 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 away from Jerusalem. {went...: Heb. went up}
All of Joash's actions, everything he did? Isn’t that jotted down in the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
And the rest 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?
His servants plotted against him and took Joash out in the house of Millo, which leads down to Silla.
And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla. {the house...: or, Bethmillo}
Jozachar, son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad, son of Shomer, his servants took him out, and he died; they buried him with his fam in the city of David, and Amaziah, his son, took over the throne.
For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.