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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Kings 12 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_kings/12.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_kings/12-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > 2 Kings 12</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_kings/11.htm" title="2 Kings 11">◄</a> 2 Kings 12 <a href="../2_kings/13.htm" title="2 Kings 13">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/2_kings/12.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Joash Repairs the Temple</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/12-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a>Joash<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> began to rule over Judah in the seventh year of King Jehu’s reign in Israel. He reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother was Zibiah from Beersheba. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>All his life Joash did what was pleasing in the LORD’s sight because Jehoiada the priest instructed him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Yet even so, he did not destroy the pagan shrines, and the people still offered sacrifices and burned incense there.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>One day King Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money brought as a sacred offering to the LORD’s Temple, whether it is a regular assessment, a payment of vows, or a voluntary gift. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Let the priests take some of that money to pay for whatever repairs are needed at the Temple.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But by the twenty-third year of Joash’s reign, the priests still had not repaired the Temple. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So King Joash called for Jehoiada and the other priests and asked them, “Why haven’t you repaired the Temple? Don’t use any more money for your own needs. From now on, it must all be spent on Temple repairs.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So the priests agreed not to accept any more money from the people, and they also agreed to let others take responsibility for repairing the Temple.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then Jehoiada the priest bored a hole in the lid of a large chest and set it on the right-hand side of the altar at the entrance of the Temple of the LORD. The priests guarding the entrance put all of the people’s contributions into the chest. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Whenever the chest became full, the court secretary and the high priest counted the money that had been brought to the LORD’s Temple and put it into bags. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then they gave the money to the construction supervisors, who used it to pay the people working on the LORD’s Temple—the carpenters, the builders, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>the masons, and the stonecutters. They also used the money to buy the timber and the finished stone needed for repairing the LORD’s Temple, and they paid any other expenses related to the Temple’s restoration.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The money brought to the Temple was not used for making silver bowls, lamp snuffers, basins, trumpets, or other articles of gold or silver for the Temple of the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>It was paid to the workmen, who used it for the Temple repairs. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>No accounting of this money was required from the construction supervisors, because they were honest and trustworthy men. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>However, the money that was contributed for guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the LORD’s Temple. It was given to the priests for their own use.</p><p class="hdg">The End of Joash’s Reign</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>About this time King Hazael of Aram went to war against Gath and captured it. Then he turned to attack Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>King Joash collected all the sacred objects that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, the previous kings of Judah, had dedicated, along with what he himself had dedicated. He sent them all to Hazael, along with all the gold in the treasuries of the LORD’s Temple and the royal palace. So Hazael called off his attack on Jerusalem.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The rest of the events in Joash’s reign and everything he did are recorded in <span class="it">The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Joash’s officers plotted against him and assassinated him at Beth-millo on the road to Silla. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/12-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The assassins were Jozacar<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer—both trusted advisers. Joash was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. Then his son Amaziah became the next king.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">12:1a </span><span class="ft">Verses 12:1-21 are numbered 12:2-22 in Hebrew text.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">12:1b </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Jehoash,</span><span class="ft"> a variant spelling of Joash; also in 12:2, 4, 6, 7, 18.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">12:21 </span><span class="ft">As in Greek and Syriac versions; Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">Jozabad.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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