2 Kings 12:12-21

12 the masons and stonecutters. They purchased timber and blocks of dressed stone for the repair of the temple of the LORD, and met all the other expenses of restoring the temple.
13 The money brought into the temple was not spent for making silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets or any other articles of gold or silver for the temple of the LORD;
14 it was paid to the workers, who used it to repair the temple.
15 They did not require an accounting from those to whom they gave the money to pay the workers, because they acted with complete honesty.
16 The money from the guilt offerings and sin offerings[a] was not brought into the temple of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.
17 About this time Hazael king of Aram went up and attacked Gath and captured it. Then he turned to attack Jerusalem.
18 But Joash king of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his predecessors—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—and the gifts he himself had dedicated and all the gold found in the treasuries of the temple of the LORD and of the royal palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram, who then withdrew from Jerusalem.
19 As for the other events of the reign of Joash, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
20 His officials conspired against him and assassinated him at Beth Millo, on the road down to Silla.
21 The officials who murdered him were Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer. He died and was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. And Amaziah his son succeeded him as king.

Cross References 12

  • 1. 2 Kings 22:5-6
  • 2. S 1 Kings 7:48-51; 2 Chronicles 24:14
  • 3. 2 Kings 22:7; 1 Corinthians 4:2
  • 4. Leviticus 5:14-19; Numbers 18:9
  • 5. Leviticus 4:1-35
  • 6. S Leviticus 7:7
  • 7. 2 Kings 8:12
  • 8. S 1 Kings 15:18; S 2 Chronicles 21:16-17
  • 9. 1 Kings 15:21; 2 Kings 15:20; 2 Kings 19:36
  • 10. 2 Kings 14:5
  • 11. 2 Kings 14:19; 2 Kings 15:10,14,25,30; 2 Kings 21:23; 2 Kings 25:25; 2 Chronicles 24:25
  • 12. Judges 9:6

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or "purification offerings"
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