2 KingsJudaism / Hebrew BibleAccepted ScriptureBiblical Hebrew / AramaicShare2 Kings 12Douay - EnglishMoreVersion - 9 availableWorld English BibleKing James VersionAmerican Standard VersionDarby BibleYoung's Literal TranslationWebster BibleGeneva BibleDouay-Rheims ChallonerReina-Valera 1909WEBKJVASVDarbyYLTWebsterGenevaDouayRV1909LanguageEnglishEspañol‹2 Kings 12 Kings 22 Kings 32 Kings 42 Kings 52 Kings 62 Kings 72 Kings 82 Kings 92 Kings 102 Kings 112 Kings 122 Kings 132 Kings 142 Kings 152 Kings 162 Kings 172 Kings 182 Kings 192 Kings 202 Kings 212 Kings 222 Kings 232 Kings 242 Kings 25›2 Kings 12ListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter1In the seventh year of Jehu, Joas began to reign: and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Sebia, of Bersabee. 2And Joas did that which was right before the Lord all the days that Joiada, the priest, taught him. 3But yet he took not away the high places: for the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. 4And Joas said to the priests: all the money of the sanctified things, which is brought into the temple of the Lord by those that pass, which is offered for the price of a soul, and which of their own accord, and of their own free heart, they bring into the temple of the Lord: 5Let the priests take it according to their order and repair the house, wheresoever they shall see any thing that wanteth repairing. 6Now till the three and twentieth year of king Joas the priests did not make the repairs of the temple. 7And king Joas called Joiada, the high priest, and the priests, saying to them: Why do you not repair the temple? Take you, therefore, money no more according to your order, but restore it for the repairing of the temple. 8And the priests were forbidden to take any more money of the people, and to make the repairs of the house. 9And Joiada, the high priest, took a chest, and bored a hole in the top, and set it by the altar at the right hand of them that came into the house of the Lord; and the priests that kept the doors, put therein all the money that was brought to the temple of the Lord. 10And when they saw that there was very much money in the chest, the king's scribe, and the high priest, came up, and poured it out, and counted the money that was found in the house of the Lord. 11And they gave it out by number and measure into the hands of them that were over the builders of the house of the Lord: and they laid it out to the carpenters, and the masons, that wrought in the house of the Lord, 12And made the repairs: and to them that cut stones, and to buy timber, and stones to be hewed, that the repairs of the house of the Lord might be completely finished, and wheresoever there was need of expenses to uphold the house. 13But there were not made of the same money for the temple of the Lord, bowls, or fleshhooks, or censers, or trumpets, or any vessel of gold and silver, of the money that was brought into the temple of the Lord: 14For it was given to them that did the work, that the temple of the Lord might be repaired. 15And they reckoned not with the men that received the money to distribute it to the workmen, but they bestowed it faithfully. 16But the money for trespass, and the money for sins, they brought not into the temple of the Lord, because it was for the priests. 17Then Hazael, king of Syria, went up, and fought against Geth, and took it, and set his face to go up to Jerusalem. 18Wherefore Joas, king of Juda, took all the sanctified things, which Josaphat, and Joram, and Ochozias, his fathers, the kings of Juda, had dedicated to holy uses, and which he himself had offered: and all the silver that could be found in the treasures of the temple of the Lord, and in the king's palace: and sent it to Hazael, king of Syria, and he went off from Jerusalem. 19And the rest of the acts of Joas, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? 20And his servants arose, and conspired among themselves, and slew Joas, in the house of Mello, in the descent of Sella. 21For Josachar the son of Semaath, and Jozabad the son of Somer his servant, struck him, and he died: and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David; and Amasias, his son, reigned in his stead. ‹Previous chapter2 Kings 11Next chapter2 Kings 13›Similar passagesBy tradition and source labelFind similarCompare selectedCompare with similarAsk Deep ThoughtSelect passages to search for parallels.Versions2 Kings 12 across 9 versionsShow all 9WEB - World English BibleKJV - King James VersionASV - American Standard VersionDarby - Darby BibleYLT - Young's Literal TranslationWebster - Webster BibleGeneva - Geneva BibleDouay - Douay-Rheims ChallonerRV1909 - Reina-Valera 1909Tap any verse to select it, then compare selected passages or ask Deep Thought. Public Domain