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| 12:1 |
In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign; he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
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| 12:2 |
Jehoash did what was right in the sight of the LORD all his days, because the priest Jehoiada instructed him.
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| 12:3 |
Nevertheless the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings on the high places.
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| 12:4 |
Jehoash said to the priests, "All the money offered as sacred donations that is brought into the house of the LORD, the money for which each person is assessed-- the money from the assessment of persons-- and the money from the voluntary offerings brought into the house of the LORD,
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| 12:5 |
let the priests receive from each of the donors; and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered."
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| 12:6 |
But by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had made no repairs on the house.
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| 12:7 |
Therefore King Jehoash summoned the priest Jehoiada with the other priests and said to them, "Why are you not repairing the house? Now therefore do not accept any more money from your donors but hand it over for the repair of the house."
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| 12:8 |
So the priests agreed that they would neither accept more money from the people nor repair the house.
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| 12:9 |
Then the priest Jehoiada took a chest, made a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one entered the house of the LORD; the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.
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| 12:10 |
Whenever they saw that there was a great deal of money in the chest, the king's secretary and the high priest went up, counted the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and tied it up in bags.
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| 12:11 |
They would give the money that was weighed out into the hands of the workers who had the oversight of the house of the LORD; then they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the house of the LORD,
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| 12:12 |
to the masons and the stonecutters, as well as to buy timber and quarried stone for making repairs on the house of the LORD, as well as for any outlay for repairs of the house.
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| 12:13 |
But for the house of the LORD no basins of silver, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, or any vessels of gold, or of silver, were made from the money that was brought into the house of the LORD,
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| 12:14 |
for that was given to the workers who were repairing the house of the LORD with it.
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| 12:15 |
They did not ask an accounting from those into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workers, for they dealt honestly.
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| 12:16 |
The money from the guilt offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.
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| 12:17 |
At that time King Hazael of Aram went up, fought against Gath, and took it. But when Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem,
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| 12:18 |
King Jehoash of Judah took all the votive gifts that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his ancestors, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, as well as his own votive gifts, all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent these to King Hazael of Aram. Then Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.
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| 12:19 |
Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah?
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| 12:20 |
His servants arose, devised a conspiracy, and killed Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
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| 12:21 |
It was Jozacar son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer, his servants, who struck him down, so that he died. He was buried with his ancestors in the city of David; then his son Amaziah succeeded him.
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| 12:22 |
But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God:
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| 12:23 |
Say to King Rehoboam of Judah, son of Solomon, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people,
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| 12:24 |
"Thus says the LORD, You shall not go up or fight against your kindred the people of Israel. Let everyone go home, for this thing is from me." So they heeded the word of the LORD and went home again, according to the word of the LORD.
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| 12:25 |
Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and resided there; he went out from there and built Penuel.
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| 12:26 |
Then Jeroboam said to himself, "Now the kingdom may well revert to the house of David.
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| 12:27 |
If this people continues to go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, the heart of this people will turn again to their master, King Rehoboam of Judah; they will kill me and return to King Rehoboam of Judah."
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| 12:28 |
So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold. He said to the people, "You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt."
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| 12:29 |
He set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.
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| 12:30 |
And this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one at Bethel and before the other as far as Dan.
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| 12:31 |
He also made houses on high places, and appointed priests from among all the people, who were not Levites.
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| 12:32 |
Jeroboam appointed a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like the festival that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; so he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.
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| 12:33 |
He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he alone had devised; he appointed a festival for the people of Israel, and he went up to the altar to offer incense.
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