2 Kings 12:15-21

15 No accounting of this money was required from the construction supervisors, because they were honest and trustworthy men.

16 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.

17 About this time King Hazael of Aram went to war against Gath and captured it. Then he turned to attack Jerusalem.

18 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.

19 The rest of the events in Joash’s reign and everything he did are recorded in

20 Joash’s officers plotted against him and assassinated him at Beth-millo on the road to Silla.

21 The assassins were Jozacar 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.

2 Kings 12:15-21 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.

Footnotes

• [a]. As in Greek and Syriac versions; Hebrew reads Jozabad.