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temple. 16 But the money for trespass, and the money
7 And king Joas called Joiada, the high priest, for sins, they brought not into the temple of the
and the priests, saying to them: Why do you not Lord, because it was for the priests.
repair the temple? Take you, therefore, money 17 Then Hazael, king of Syria, went up, and
no more according to your order, but restore it fought against Geth, and took it, and set his face
for the repairing of the temple. to go up to Jerusalem.
8 And the priests were forbidden to take any 18 Wherefore Joas, king of Juda, took all the
more money of the people, and to make the re- sanctified things, which Josaphat, and Joram,
pairs of the house. and Ochozias, his fathers, the kings of Juda, had
9 And Joiada, the high priest, took a chest, dedicated to holy uses, and which he himself had
and bored a hole in the top, and set it by the offered: and all the silver that could be found in
altar at the right hand of them that came into the treasures of the temple of the Lord, and in
the house of the Lord; and the priests that kept the king’s palace: and sent it to Hazael, king of
the doors, put therein all the money that was Syria, and he went off from Jerusalem.
brought to the temple of the Lord. 19 And the rest of the acts of Joas, and all
10 And when they saw that there was very that he did, are they not written in the book of
much money in the chest, the king’s scribe, and the words of the days of the kings of Juda?
the high priest, came up, and poured it out, and 20 And his servants arose, and conspired
counted the money that was found in the house among themselves, and slew Joas, in the house
of the Lord. of Mello, in the descent of Sella.
11 And they gave it out by number and mea- 21 For Josachar the son of Semaath, and Joz-
sure into the hands of them that were over the abad the son of Somer his servant, struck him,
builders of the house of the Lord: and they laid and he died: and they buried him with his fa-
it out to the carpenters, and the masons, that thers in the city of David; and Amasias, his son,
wrought in the house of the Lord, reigned in his stead.
12 And made the repairs: and to them that
cut stones, and to buy timber, and stones to be
hewed, that the repairs of the house of the Lord Chapter 13
might be completely finished, and wheresoever
there was need of expenses to uphold the house. In the three and twentieth year of Joas son of
13 But there were not made of the same Ochozias, king of Juda, Joachaz, the son of Jehu,
money for the temple of the Lord, bowls, or flesh- reigned over Israel, in Samaria, seventeen years.
hooks, or censers, or trumpets, or any vessel of 2 And he did evil before the Lord, and fol-
gold and silver, of the money that was brought lowed the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat,
into the temple of the Lord: who made Israel to sin; and he departed not from
14 For it was given to them that did the work, them.
that the temple of the Lord might be repaired. 3 And the wrath of the Lord was kindled
15 And they reckoned not with the men that against Israel, and he delivered them into the
received the money to distribute it to the work- hand of Hazael, the king of Syria, and into the
men, but they bestowed it faithfully. hand of Benadad, the son of Hazael, all days.