2 Kings 12:1-6

Joash (Jehoash) Reigns over Judah

1 In the seventh year of Jehu, ¹Jehoash became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

2 Jehoash did right in the sight of the LORD all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

3 Only ²the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

The Temple to Be Repaired

4 Then Jehoash said to the priests, "All the money of the sacred things ³which is brought into the house of the LORD, in current money, both ⁴the money of each man's assessment and all the money which any man's heart prompts * him to bring into the house of the LORD,

5 let the priests take it for themselves, each from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the damages of the house wherever * * any damage may be found."

6 But it came about that in the twenty-third * year of King Jehoash ⁵the priests had not repaired the damages of the house.

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2 Kings 12:1-6 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 5

1. 2 Chronicles 24:1
2. 2 Kings 14:4; 2 Kings 15:35
3. 2 Kings 22:4
4. Exodus 30:13-16; Exodus 35:5, 22, 29; 1 Chronicles 29:3-9
5. 2 Chronicles 24:5

Footnotes 2

[a]. Lit "which it comes into...to bring"
[b]. Lit "breaches," and so through v 12