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neither to repair the breaches of the house.
9
But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole
in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the L
ORD
:
and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money
that was
brought into the house of the
L
ORD
.
10
And it was
so,
when they saw that
there was
much money in the chest, that the king’s
scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in
the house of the L
ORD
.
11
And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the
work, that had the oversight of the house of the L
ORD
: and they laid it out to the carpenters and
builders, that wrought upon the house of the L
ORD
,
12
And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to
buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the L
ORD
, and for all that was
laid out for the house to repair
it.
13
Howbeit there were not made for the house of the L
ORD
bowls
of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money
that was
brought into the house of the L
ORD
:
14
But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith
the house of the L
ORD
.
15
Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered
the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
16
The trespass money and sin
money was not brought into the house of the L
ORD
: it was the priests’.
17
Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his
face to go up to Jerusalem.
18
And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that
Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own
hallowed things, and all the gold
that was
found in the treasures of the house of the L
ORD
, and in
the king’s house, and sent
it
to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
19
And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did,
are
they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah?
20
And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash
in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
21
For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad
the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in
the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
CHAPTER KINGS 13
In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu
began to reign over Israel in Samaria,
and reigned
seventeen years.
2
And he did
that which was
evil in the sight of the L
ORD
, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel
to sin; he departed not therefrom.
3
And the anger of the L
ORD
was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of
Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael, all
their
days.
4
And
Jehoahaz besought the L
ORD
, and the L
ORD
hearkened unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel,
because the king of Syria oppressed them.
5
(And the L
ORD
gave Israel a saviour, so that they went
out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.
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