12:011:021 Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.
12:012:001 In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began
to reign; and forty
years
reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s
name was
Zibiah
of Beersheba.
12:012:002 And Jehoash did that which was right in
the sight of the lord
all
his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
12:012:003 But the high places were not taken away:
the people still
sacrificed
and burnt incense in the high places.
12:012:004 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the
money of the
dedicated
things that is brought into the house of the lord,
even
the money of every one that passeth the account, the
money
that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh
into
any man’s heart to bring into the house of the
lord,
12:012:005 Let the priests take it to them, every
man of his
acquaintance:
and let them repair the breaches of the house,
wheresoever
any breach shall be found.
12:012:006 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth
year of king
Jehoash
the priests had not repaired the breaches of the
house.
12:012:007 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the
priest, and the
other
priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the
breaches
of the house? now therefore receive no more money of
your
acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the
house.
12:012:008 And the priests consented to receive no
more money of the
people,
neither to repair the breaches of the house.
12:012:009 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 lord: and the
priests that
kept
the door put therein all the money that was brought
into
the
house of the lord.
12:012:010 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 lord.
12:012:011 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
lord:
and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders,
that
wrought upon the house of the lord,
12:012:012 And to masons, and hewers of stone, and
to buy timber and
hewed
stone to repair the breaches of the house of the lord,
and
for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.


