2 Kings 12:1-8

Joash Repairs the Temple

1 In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash^[a] became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.

2 Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the years Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

3 The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.

4 Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money that is brought as sacred offerings to the temple of the LORD—the money collected in the census, the money received from personal vows and the money brought voluntarily to the temple.

5 Let every priest receive the money from one of the treasurers, then use it to repair whatever damage is found in the temple.”

6 But by the twenty-third year of King Joash the priests still had not repaired the temple.

7 Therefore King Joash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and asked them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage done to the temple? Take no more money from your treasurers, but hand it over for repairing the temple.”

8 The priests agreed that they would not collect any more money from the people and that they would not repair the temple themselves.

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2 Kings 12:1-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 12

In this chapter some account is given of the reign of Jehoash, that it was long, and the beginning of it good, during the life of Jehoiada, 2Ki 12:1-3 how urgent he was to have the temple repaired, and what methods were taken for that purpose, 2Ki 12:4-16, how meanly, as well as impiously, he behaved, when the king of Syria was about to come up to Jerusalem and besiege it, 2Ki 12:17,18, and the chapter is closed with an account of his death, and the manner of it, 2Ki 12:19-21.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 8

1. 2 Kings 11:2
2. S Deuteronomy 12:25; S 2 Samuel 8:15
3. S 1 Kings 3:3; S 2 Kings 14:4; 2 Kings 15:35; 2 Kings 18:4
4. 2 Kings 22:4
5. Exodus 35:5; Numbers 18:19
6. S Exodus 30:12
7. S Exodus 25:2; S Exodus 35:29; 1 Chronicles 29:3-9
8. 2 Kings 22:5

Footnotes 1

[a]. Hebrew "Jehoash," a variant of "Joash" ; also in verses 2, 4, 6, 7 and 18