2 Kings 12

1 In the seventh year of Jehu began Jehoash to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash has reigned, and he has reigned forty years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Zibiah of Beer-Sheba,

2 Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD all his days in which Jehoiada the cohen instructed him.

and Jehoash does that which is right in the eyes of YHWH all his days in which Jehoiada the priest directed him,

3 However the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

only, the high places have not been removed—the people are still sacrificing and making incense in high places.

4 Jehoash said to the cohanim, "All the money of the holy things that is brought into the house of the LORD, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it comes into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,

And Jehoash says to the priests, “All the money of the sanctified things that is brought into the house of YHWH, the money of him who is passing over, the money of each of the souls—his valuation, all the money that goes up on the heart of a man to bring into the house of YHWH,

5 let the cohanim take it to them, every man from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the breaches of the house, wherever any breach shall be found."

the priests take to themselves, each from his acquaintance, and they strengthen the breach of the house in all [places] there where a breach is found.”

6 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the cohanim had not repaired the breaches of the house.

And it comes to pass, in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests have not strengthened the breach of the house,

7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the cohen, and for the other cohanim, and said to them, "Why do you not repair the breaches of the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for the breaches of the house."

and King Jehoash calls to Jehoiada the priest, and to the priests, and says to them, “Why are you not strengthening the breach of the house? And now, receive no money from your acquaintances, but give it for the breach of the house.”

8 The cohanim consented that they should take no more money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.

And the priests do not consent to receive money from the people, nor to strengthen the breach of the house,

9 But Jehoiada the cohen took a chest, and 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 cohanim who kept the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.

and Jehoiada the priest takes a chest, and pierces a hole in its lid, and puts it near the altar, on the right side, as one comes into the house of YHWH, and the priests keeping the threshold have put all the money there that is brought into the house of YHWH.

10 It was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the cohen hagadol came up, and they put up in bags and counted the money that was found in the house of the LORD.

And it comes to pass, at their seeing that the money [is] abundant in the chest, that there goes up a scribe of the king, and of the high priest, and they bind [it] up, and count the money that is found [in] the house of YHWH,

11 They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on the house of the LORD,

and have given the weighed money into the hands of those doing the work, those inspecting the house of YHWH, and they bring it out to those working in the wood, and to builders who are working in the house of YHWH,

12 and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

and to those [repairing] the wall, and to hewers of stone, and to buy wood and hewn stones to strengthen the breach of the house of YHWH, and for all that goes out on the house, to strengthen it.

13 But there were not made for the house of the LORD cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the LORD;

Only, there is not made for the house of YHWH basins of silver, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, any vessel of gold, and vessel of silver, out of the money that is brought into the house of YHWH;

14 for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired therewith the house of the LORD.

for they give it to those doing the work, and they have strengthened the house of YHWH with it,

15 Moreover they did not demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.

and they do not reckon with the men into whose hand they give the money to give to those doing the work, for they are dealing in faithfulness.

16 The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for the sin offerings, was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the cohanim'.

The money of a trespass-offering and the money of sin-offerings is not brought into the house of YHWH—it is for the priests.

17 Then Hazael king of Aram went up, and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.

Then Hazael king of Aram goes up and fights against Gath, and captures it, and Hazael sets his face to go up against Jerusalem;

18 Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and of the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Aram: and he went away from Jerusalem.

and Jehoash king of Judah takes all the sanctified things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had sanctified, and his own sanctified things, and all the gold that is found in the treasures of the house of YHWH and of the house of the king, and sends [them] to Hazael king of Aram, and he goes up from off Jerusalem.

19 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

And the rest of the matters of Joash and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

20 His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.

And his servants rise, and make a conspiracy, and strike Joash in the house of Millo, that is going down to Silla.

21 For Jozabad the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the City of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

Indeed, Jozachar son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad son of Shemer, his servants, have struck him, and he dies, and they bury him with his fathers in the City of David, and his son Amaziah reigns in his stead.