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Jehoash Repairs the Temple

1 In the seventh year of Jehu, aJehoash became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.  
2 Jehoash did what was right in the sight of the Lord all the days in which aJehoiada the priest instructed him.  
3 But athe high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.  
4 And Jehoash said to the priests, a“All the money of the dedicated gifts that are brought into the house of the Lord—each man’s bcensus money, each man’s cassessment money—and all the money that2 a man dpurposes in his heart to bring into the house of the Lord,  
5 let the priests take it themselves, each from his constituency; and let them repair the1 damages of the temple, wherever any dilapidation is found.”  
6 Now it was so, by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, athat the priests had not repaired the damages of the temple.  
7 aSo King Jehoash called Jehoiada the priest and the other priests, and said to them, “Why have you not repaired the damages of the temple? Now therefore, do not take more money from your constituency, but deliver it for repairing the damages of the temple.”  
8 And the priests agreed that they would neither receive more money from the people, nor repair the damages of the temple.
9 Then Jehoiada the priest took aa chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of the Lord; and the priests who1 kept the door put bthere all the money brought into the house of the Lord.  
10 So it was, whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king’s ascribe and the high priest came up and2 put it in bags, and counted the money that was found in the house of the Lord.  
11 Then they gave the money, which had been apportioned, into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of the Lord; and they1 paid it out to the carpenters and builders who worked on the house of the Lord,  
12 and to masons and stonecutters, and for buying timber and hewn stone, to arepair the damage of the house of the Lord, and for all that was paid out to repair the temple.  
13 However athere were not made for the house of the Lord basins of silver, trimmers, sprinkling-bowls, trumpets, any articles of gold or articles of silver, from the money brought into the house of the Lord.  
14 But they gave that to the workmen, and they repaired the house of the Lord with it.
15 Moreover athey did not require an account from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to be paid to workmen, for they dealt faithfully.  
16 aThe money from the trespass offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the Lord. bIt belonged to the priests.  

Hazael Threatens Jerusalem

17 aHazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it; then bHazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.  
18 And Jehoash king of Judah atook all the sacred things that his fathers, Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred things, and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the Lord and in the king’s house, and sent them to Hazael king of Syria. Then he went away from Jerusalem.  
Verse Comparison: 2 Kings 12:2

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American Standard Version
And Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

Amplified® Bible
Joash did right in the sight of the Lord all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

Contemporary English Version
Jehoiada the priest taught Joash what was right, and so for the rest of his life Joash obeyed the LORD.

Darby English Version
And Jehoash did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, all the days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

Good News Bible
Throughout his life he did what pleased the LORD, because Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

King James Version
And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

New American Standard Bible
Jehoash did right in the sight of the LORD all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

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

New King James Version
Jehoash did what was right in the sight of the LORD all the days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
Jehoash did right in the sight of the LORD all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

Revised Standard Version
And Jeho'ash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all his days, because Jehoi'ada the priest instructed him.

Young's Literal Translation
and Jehoash doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah all his days in which Jehoiada the priest directed him,

New English Translation
Throughout his lifetime Jehoash did what the Lord approved,1 just as2 Jehoiada the priest taught him.


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