mkjv - 2Kings:12-13

mkjv@2Kings:12:1 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:12:2 @ And Joash did the right in the sight of the LORD all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

mkjv@2Kings:12:3 @ But the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

mkjv@2Kings:12:4 @ 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,

mkjv@2Kings:12:5 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:12:6 @ And it happened in the twenty-third year of King Joash, the priests had not repaired the breaks of the house.

mkjv@2Kings:12:7 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:12:8 @ And the priests agreed to take no silver from the people, nor to repair the breaks of the house.

mkjv@2Kings:12:9 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:12:10 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:12:11 @ 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,

mkjv@2Kings:12:12 @ 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].

mkjv@2Kings:12:13 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:12:14 @ For they gave it to the workmen, and repaired the house of the LORD with it.

mkjv@2Kings:12:15 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:12:16 @ The trespass silver and sin silver was not brought into the house of the LORD. It was the priests'.

mkjv@2Kings:12:17 @ Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it. And Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.

mkjv@2Kings:12:18 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:12:19 @ 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?

mkjv@2Kings:12:20 @ And his servants arose and made a plot. And they killed Joash in the house of Millo, which goes down [to] Silla.

mkjv@2Kings:12:21 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:13:1 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:13:2 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:13:3 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:13:4 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:13:5 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:13:6 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:13:7 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:13:8 @ 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?

mkjv@2Kings:13:9 @ And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers. And they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoash his son reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Kings:13:10 @ In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz began to reign over Israel in Samaria, sixteen years.

mkjv@2Kings:13:11 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:13:12 @ 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?

mkjv@2Kings:13:13 @ And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and Jeroboam sat on his throne. And Jehoash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

mkjv@2Kings:13:14 @ 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!

mkjv@2Kings:13:15 @ And Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows. And he took bow and arrows to himself.

mkjv@2Kings:13:16 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:13:17 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:13:18 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:13:19 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:13:20 @ And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at first of the year.

mkjv@2Kings:13:21 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:13:22 @ But Hazael, the king of Syria, oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.

mkjv@2Kings:13:23 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:13:24 @ And Hazael king of Syria died. And his son Ben-hadad reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Kings:13:25 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:14:1 @ In the second year of Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah reigned.