The Money Collected to Repair the Lord's House |
2 Kings 12:1-21 2 Kings [in Smaller Chunks] |
In the 7th year [Jehu] [ruled,] Joash [a.k.a. Jehoash,] began to [rule] & he [ruled] 40 years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah, [from] BeerSheba. [Joash] did [what] was right in the sight of the Lord all his days [n which] Jehoiada, the priest, instructed him. |
But the high places [where] the people still sacrificed, & burnt incense in the high places, were not taken away. |
And [Joash] said to the priests, [Let the priests take] all the money that is brought into the [Lord's] house [for] dedicated things, even the money of everyone [who:] [owes for vows, or is assessed to pay, or free-will offerings,] that come into any man's heart to bring into the [Lord's] house. |
Let the priests, & every man take it to [those acquaintances [they know,] & let them repair the [damages] of the [Lord's] house, [wherever] any [damage is] found. But it [happened,] in the 23rd year king [Joash] [ruled,] the priests hadn't repaired the [damage] of the [Lord's] house. |
Then, king [Joash,] called for Jehoiada, the priest, & the other priests, & said to them, Why [haven't] you [repaired] the [damage] of the [Lord's] house? Therefore now, [don't] receive [anymore] money [for] your [acquaintances,] but deliver it for the [damages] of the [Lord's] house. |
And the priests [agreed not] to receive [anymore] money [from] the people, [& not] to repair the [damages] of the [Lord's] house. But [instead,] Jehoiada, the priest, took a chest, & [drilled] a hole in the lid of it, & set it beside the altar on the right side, as [someone comes] into the house of the Lord. |
And the priests [who] kept the door, put [in it] all the money that was brought into the [Lord's] house. And it [happened,] when they saw there was much money in the chest, the king's scribe, & the high priest came up, & put [it into] bags, & [counted] the money that was found [in the chest] in the [Lord's] house. |
And they [weighed it out,] & gave the [amount of] money [needed,] into the hands of [those who] did the work, & that had oversight of [the repairs of] the [Lord's] house. |
And they [paid] it out to the: carpenters & builders, masons & stone cutters, [who worked] upon the [Lord's] house, to buy [lumber,] & [cut] stone to repair the [damages,] of the [Lord's] house, & for all that was [paid] out, to repair the [Lord's] house. |
[But] there weren't any: silver bowls, [candle] snuffers, [basins,] trumpets, & gold vessels, & silver vessels, made [from] the money that was brought into the Lord's] house. But they gave that [money] to the workmen, & [with it,] [they] repaired the [Lord's] house. |
[Additionally, they [didn't] [need] the men [to account for the money given to them,] for [those] whose hand they delivered the money [into,] to be [given to the] workmen, dealt faithfully. [The money [for:] the trespass, & sin [offerings] wasn't brought into the [Lord's] house. It was the priests’. |
Then, Hazael, [Syria's] king, went up, & fought against Gath, & [captured] it. And Hazael set his [mind on] [going] up to Jerusalem. |
And [Joash, Judah's] king, took all the [holy] things that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, Ahaziah & his [forefathers,] & kings of Judah had dedicated, & his own [holy] things, & all the gold that was found in the [treasury] of the [Lord's] house, & the king's house, & sent it Hazael, [Syria's] king. And [Hazael] went away from Jerusalem. |
Aren't the rest of the [actions] of Joash, & all that he did, written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? And [Joash's] servants arose, & [conspired, & killed] Joash in the house of Millo, [that goes] down to Silla. |
For: Jozachar, [Shimeath's] son; Jehozabad, [Shomer's] son, & his servants [struck down Joash,] & he died. And they buried [Joash] with his [forefathers] in the city of David, & Amaziah, his son [ruled] in his [place.] |