2Kings:12-13

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* And in the seventh year of Jehu , Joash began to reign . And he reigned in Jerusalem forty years . And his mother 's name [was ] Zibiah of Beer-sheba . * And Joash did the right in the sight of the LORD all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him . * But the high places were not taken away . The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places . * And Joash said to the priests , All the silver from things dedicated to God , which is brought into the house of the LORD , the silver from each man the silver of his valuation , all the silver that comes into any man 's heart to bring to the house of the LORD , * let the priests take [it ] to themselves , each man from those he knows . And let them repair the breaks in the house , in all [places ] where any break shall be found . * And it happened in the twenty-third year of King Joash , the priests had not repaired the breaks of the house . * Then king Joash called for Jehoiada the priest , and the priests , and said to them , Why are you not repairing the breaks of the house ? And now take no silver from those you know , but deliver it for the breaks of the house . * And the priests agreed to take no silver from the people , nor to repair the breaks of the house . * But Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid . And he set it beside the altar , on the right side as one comes into the house of the LORD . And the priests who kept the door put in it all the silver brought into the house of the LORD . * And it happened when they saw that much silver [was ] in the chest , the king 's scribe and the high priest came up . And they bound and counted the silver that was found [in ] the house of the LORD . * And they gave the silver which was counted into the hands of those who did the work , those overseeing the house of the LORD . And they laid it out to the carpenters and builders who worked on the house of the LORD , * and to masons and cutters of stone , and to buy timber and cut stone to repair the breaks of the house of the LORD , and for all that went forth for the house , to repair [it ]. * Only , there were no bowls of silver , snuffers , basins , trumpets , or any vessels of gold or vessels of silver , made for the house of the LORD from the silver which [was ] brought into the house of the LORD . * For they gave it to the workmen , and repaired the house of the LORD with it . * And they did not make an accounting with the men into whose hands they gave the silver to be given to the workmen . For they dealt faithfully . * The trespass silver and sin silver was not brought into the house of the LORD . It was the priests '. * Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath , and took it . And Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem . * And Joash king of Judah took all the holy things which Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah , his fathers , kings of Judah , had dedicated , and his own holy things , and all the gold found in the treasures of the house of the LORD , and in the king 's house , and sent [it ] to Hazael king of Syria . And he went away from Jerusalem . * And the rest of the acts of Joash , and all that he did , [are ] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah ? * And his servants arose and made a plot . And they killed Joash in the house of Millo , which goes down [to ] Silla . * For Jozachar 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 . * In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah , Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria , seventeen years . * And he did the evil in the sight of the LORD , and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat , who made Israel to sin . And he did not depart from them . * And the anger of the LORD 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 . * And Jehoahaz sought the LORD , and the LORD listened to him . For He saw the oppression of Israel , because the king of Syria oppressed them . * And the LORD gave Israel a deliverer , so that they went out from under the Syrians . And the sons of Israel lived in their tents , as before . * But they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam , who made Israel to sin , [but ] walked in them . And also the Asherah in Samaria stood . * For He had not left a people remaining to Jehoahaz , but only fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen ; for the king of Syria had destroyed them and had made them like the dust at threshing-time . * And the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz , and all that he did , and his might , [are ] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel ? * And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers . And they buried him in Samaria . And Jehoash his son reigned in his place . * In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah , Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz began to reign over Israel in Samaria , sixteen years . * And he did the evil in the sight of the LORD . He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat , who made Israel to sin , [but ] he walked in them . * And the rest of the acts of Jehoash , and all that he did , and his might which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah , [are ] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel ? * And Jehoash slept with his fathers , and Jeroboam sat on his throne . And Jehoash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel . * And Elisha had fallen sick with his illness in which he died . And Jehoash the king of Israel came down to him and wept over his face . And he said , O my father , my father , the chariot of Israel and the horsemen of it ! * And Elisha said to him , Take bow and arrows . And he took bow and arrows to himself . * And he said to the king of Israel , Put your hand on the bow . And he placed his hand . And Elisha put his hands on the king 's hands . * And he said , Open the window eastward . And he opened . And Elisha said , Shoot ! And he shot . And he said , The arrow of the LORD 's deliverance , and the arrow of deliverance from Syria . For you shall strike the Syrians in Aphek until it is finished . * And he said , Take the arrows . And he took [them ]. And he said to the king of Israel , Strike on the ground . And he struck three times and stopped . * And the man of God was angry with him , and said , You should have stricken five or six times , then you would have stricken Syria until it was finished . But now you shall strike Syria three times . * And Elisha died , and they buried him . And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at first of the year . * And it happened as they were burying a man , behold , they spied a band . And they threw the man into the grave of Elisha . And the man went down and touched the bones of Elisha , and revived and stood up on his feet . * But Hazael , the king of Syria , oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz . * And the LORD was gracious to them , and had pity on them , and had respect to them , because of His covenant with Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob . And He would not destroy them , nor cast them from His presence as yet . * And Hazael king of Syria died . And his son Ben-hadad reigned in his place . * And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz returned and took out of the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war . Jehoash struck him three times and recovered the cities of Israel . * In the second year of Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz king of Israel , Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah reigned .

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