2KI 7:1
Then Elisha said, "Listen to the word of the Lord;
thus says the Lord, 'Tomorrow about this time a
measure of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel,
and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate
of Samaria.'"
2KI 7:2 And the royal officer on whose hand
the king was leaning answered the man of God and
said, "Behold, if the Lord should make windows in
heaven, could this thing be?" Then he said, "Behold
you shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall
not eat of it."
2KI 7:3 Now there were four leprous men at
the entrance of the gate; and they said to one
another, "Why do we sit here until we die?
2KI 7:4 "If we say, 'We will enter the city,'
then the famine is in the city and we shall die
there; and if we sit here, we die also. Now
therefore come, and let us go over to the camp of
the Arameans. If they spare us, we shall live; and
if they kill us, we shall but die."
2KI 7:5 And they arose at twilight to go to
the camp of the Arameans; when they came to the
outskirts of the camp of the Arameans, behold, there
was no one there.
2KI 7:6 For the Lord had caused the army of
the Arameans to hear a sound of chariots and a sound
of horses, even the sound of a great army, so that
they said to one another, "Behold, the king of
Israel has hired against us the kings of the
Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians, to come
upon us."
2KI 7:7 Therefore they arose and fled in the
twilight, and left their tents and their horses and
their donkeys, even the camp just as it was, and
fled for their life.
2KI 7:8 When these lepers came to the
outskirts of the camp, they entered one tent and ate
and drank, and carried from there silver and gold
and clothes, and went and hid them; and they
returned and entered another tent and carried from
there also, and went and hid them.
2KI 7:9 Then they said to one another, "We
are not doing right. This day is a day of good news,
but we are keeping silent; if we wait until morning
light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore
come, let us go and tell the king's household."
2KI 7:10 So they came and called to the
gatekeepers of the city, and they told them, saying,
"We came to the camp of the Arameans, and behold,
there was no one there, nor the voice of man, only
the horses tied and the donkeys tied, and the tents
just as they were."
2KI 7:11 And the gatekeepers called, and told
it within the king's household.
2KI 7:12 Then the king arose in the night and
said to his servants, "I will now tell you what the
Arameans have done to us. They know that we are
hungry; therefore they have gone from the camp to
hide themselves in the field, saying, 'When they
come out of the city, we shall capture them alive
and get into the city.'"
2KI 7:13 And one of his servants answered and
said, "Please, let some men take five of the horses
which remain, which are left in the city. Behold,
they will be in any case like all the multitude of
Israel who are left in it; behold, they will be in
any case like all the multitude of Israel who have
already perished, so let us send and see."
2KI 7:14 They took therefore two chariots
with horses, and the king sent after the army of the
Arameans, saying, "Go and see."
2KI 7:15 And they went after them to the
Jordan, and behold, all the way was full of clothes
and equipment, which the Arameans had thrown away in
their haste. Then the messengers returned and told
the king.
2KI 7:16 So the people went out and plundered
the camp of the Arameans. Then a measure of fine
flour was sold for a shekel and two measures of
barley for a shekel, according to the word of the
Lord.
2KI 7:17 Now the king appointed the royal
officer on whose hand he leaned to have charge of
the gate; but the people trampled on him at the
gate, and he died just as the man of God had said,
who spoke when the king came down to him.
2KI 7:18 And it came about just as the man of
God had spoken to the king, saying, "Two measures of
barley for a shekel and a measure of fine flour for
a shekel, shall be sold tomorrow about this time at
the gate of Samaria."
2KI 7:19 Then the royal officer answered the
man of God and said, "Now behold, if the Lord should
make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?" And
he said, "Behold, you shall see it with your own
eyes, but you shall not eat of it."
2KI 7:20 And so it happened to him, for the
people trampled on him at the gate, and he died.
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2KI 8:1
Now Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had
restored to life, saying, "Arise and go with your
household, and sojourn wherever you can sojourn; for
the Lord has called for a famine, and it shall even
come on the land for seven years."
2KI 8:2 So the woman arose and did according
to the word of the man of God, and she went with her
household and sojourned in the land of the
Philistines seven years.
2KI 8:3 And it came about at the end of seven
years, that the woman returned from the land of the
Philistines; and she went out to appeal to the king
for her house and for her field.
2KI 8:4 Now the king was talking with Gehazi,
the servant of the man of God, saying, "Please
relate to me all the great things that Elisha has
done."
2KI 8:5 And it came about, as he was relating
to the king how he had restored to life the one who
was dead, that behold, the woman whose son he had
restored to life, appealed to the king for her house
and for her field. And Gehazi said, "My lord, O
king, this is the woman and this is her son, whom
Elisha restored to life."
2KI 8:6 When the king asked the woman, she
related it to him. So the king appointed for her a
certain officer, saying, "Restore all that was hers
and all the produce of the field from the day that
she left the land even until now."
2KI 8:7 Then Elisha came to Damascus. Now
Ben-hadad king of Aram was sick, and it was told
him, saying, "The man of God has come here."
2KI 8:8 And the king said to Hazael, "Take a
gift in your hand and go to meet the man of God, and
inquire of the Lord by him, saying, 'Will I recover
from this sickness?'"
2KI 8:9 So Hazael went to meet him and took a
gift in his hand, even every kind of good thing of
Damascus, forty camels' loads; and he came and stood
before him and said, "Your son Ben-hadad king of
Aram has sent me to you, saying, 'Will I recover
from this sickness?'"
2KI 8:10 Then Elisha said to him, "Go, say to
him, 'You shall surely recover,' but the Lord has
shown me that he will certainly die."
2KI 8:11 And he fixed his gaze steadily on
him until he was ashamed, and the man of God wept.
2KI 8:12 And Hazael said, "Why does my lord
weep?" Then he answered, "Because I know the evil
that you will do to the sons of Israel: their
strongholds you will set on fire, and their young
men you will kill with the sword, and their little
ones you will dash in pieces, and their women with
child you will rip up."
2KI 8:13 Then Hazael said, "But what is your
servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this
great thing?" And Elisha answered, "The Lord has
shown me that you will be king over Aram."
2KI 8:14 So he departed from Elisha and
returned to his master, who said to him, "What did
Elisha say to you?" And he answered, "He told me
that you would surely recover."
2KI 8:15 And it came about on the morrow,
that he took the cover and dipped it in water and
spread it on his face, so that he died. And Hazael
became king in his place.
2KI 8:16 Now in the fifth year of Joram the
son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then
the king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat
king of Judah became king.
2KI 8:17 He was thirty-two years old when he
became king, and he reigned eight years in
Jerusalem.
2KI 8:18 And he walked in the way of the
kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done,
for the daughter of Ahab became his wife; and he did
evil in the sight of the Lord.
2KI 8:19 However, the Lord was not willing to
destroy Judah, for the sake of David His servant,
since He had promised him to give a lamp to him
through his sons always.
2KI 8:20 In his days Edom revolted from under
the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
2KI 8:21 Then Joram crossed over to Zair, and
all his chariots with him. And it came about that he
arose by night and struck the Edomites who had
surrounded him and the captains of the chariots; but
his army fled to their tents.
2KI 8:22 So Edom revolted against Judah to
this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
2KI 8:23 And the rest of the acts of Joram
and all that he did, are they not written in the
Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
2KI 8:24 So Joram slept with his fathers, and
was buried with his fathers in the city of David;
and Ahaziah his son became king in his place.
2KI 8:25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son
of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram
king of Judah began to reign.
2KI 8:26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old
when he became king, and he reigned one year in
Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah the
granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.
2KI 8:27 And he walked in the way of the
house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the
Lord, like the house of Ahab had done, because he
was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
2KI 8:28 Then he went with Joram the son of
Ahab to war against Hazael king of Aram at
Ramoth-gilead, and the Arameans wounded Joram.
2KI 8:29 So King Joram returned to be healed
in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had
inflicted on him at Ramah, when he fought against
Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah the son of Jehoram
king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab
in Jezreel because he was sick.
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2KI 9:1
Now Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the
prophets, and said to him, "Gird up your loins, and
take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to
Ramoth-gilead.
2KI 9:2 "When you arrive there, search out
Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and
go in and bid him arise from among his brothers, and
bring him to an inner room.
2KI 9:3 "Then take the flask of oil and pour
it on his head and say, 'Thus says the Lord," I have
anointed you king over Israel."'Then open the door
and flee and do not wait."
2KI 9:4 So the young man, the servant of the
prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.
2KI 9:5 When he came, behold, the captains of
the army were sitting, and he said, "I have a word
for you, O captain." And Jehu said, "For which one
of us?" And he said, "For you, O captain."
2KI 9:6 And he arose and went into the house,
and he poured the oil on his head and said to him,
"Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'I have
anointed you king over the people of the Lord, even
over Israel.
2KI 9:7 'And you shall strike the house of
Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of My
servants the prophets, and the blood of all the
servants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezebel.
2KI 9:8 'For the whole house of Ahab shall
perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male
person both bond and free in Israel.
2KI 9:9 'And I will make the house of Ahab
like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and
like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.
2KI 9:10 'And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in
the territory of Jezreel, and none shall bury her.'
"Then he opened the door and fled.
2KI 9:11 Now Jehu came out to the servants of
his master, and one said to him, "Is all well? Why
did this mad fellow come to you?" And he said to
them, "You know very well the man and his talk."
2KI 9:12 And they said, "It is a lie, tell us
now." And he said, "Thus and thus he said to me,
'Thus says the Lord," I have anointed you king over
Israel."'"
2KI 9:13 Then they hurried and each man took
his garment and placed it under him on the bare
steps, and blew the trumpet, saying, "Jehu is king!"
2KI 9:14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the
son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. Now Joram
with all Israel was defending Ramoth-gilead against
Hazael king of Aram,
2KI 9:15 but King Joram had returned to
Jezreel to be healed of the wounds which the
Arameans had inflicted on him when he fought with
Hazael king of Aram. So Jehu said, "If this is your
mind, then let no one escape or leave the city to go
tell it in Jezreel."
2KI 9:16 Then Jehu rode in a chariot and went
to Jezreel, for Joram was lying there. And Ahaziah
king of Judah had come down to see Joram.
2KI 9:17 Now the watchman was standing on the
tower in Jezreel and he saw the company of Jehu as
he came, and said, "I see a company." And Joram
said, "Take a horseman and send him to meet them and
let him say, 'Is it peace?'"
2KI 9:18 So a horseman went to meet him and
said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'" And Jehu
said, "What have you to do with peace? Turn behind
me." And the watchman reported, "The messenger came
to them, but he did not return."
2KI 9:19 Then he sent out a second horseman,
who came to them and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is
it peace?'" And Jehu answered, "What have you to do
with peace? Turn behind me."
2KI 9:20 And the watchman reported, "He came
even to them, and he did not return; and the driving
is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for
he drives furiously."
2KI 9:21 Then Joram said, "Get ready." And
they made his chariot ready. And Joram king of
Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in
his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu and
found him in the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.
2KI 9:22 And it came about, when Joram saw
Jehu, that he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" And he
answered, "What peace, so long as the harlotries of
your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so
many?"
2KI 9:23 So Joram reined about and fled and
said to Ahaziah, "There is treachery, O Ahaziah!"
2KI 9:24 And Jehu drew his bow with his full
strength and shot Joram between his arms; and the
arrow went through his heart, and he sank in his
chariot.
2KI 9:25 Then Jehu said to Bidkar his
officer, "Take him up and cast him into the property
of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite, for I
remember when you and I were riding together after
Ahab his father, that the Lord laid this oracle
against him:
2KI 9:26 'Surely I have seen yesterday the
blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons,' says the
Lord,' and I will repay you in this property,' says
the Lord. Now then, take and cast him into the
property, according to the word of the Lord."
2KI 9:27 When Ahaziah the king of Judah saw
this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And
Jehu pursued him and said, "Shoot him too, in the
chariot." So they shot him at the ascent of Gur,
which is at Ibleam. But he fled to Megiddo and died
there.
2KI 9:28 Then his servants carried him in a
chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his grave
with his fathers in the city of David.
2KI 9:29 Now in the eleventh year of Joram,
the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah.
2KI 9:30 When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel
heard of it, and she painted her eyes and adorned
her head, and looked out the window.
2KI 9:31 And as Jehu entered the gate, she
said, "Is it well, Zimri, your master's murderer?"
2KI 9:32 Then he lifted up his face to the
window and said, "Who is on my side? Who?" And two
or three officials looked down at him.
2KI 9:33 And he said, "Throw her down." So
they threw her down, and some of her blood was
sprinkled on the wall and on the horses, and he
trampled her under foot.
2KI 9:34 When he came in, he ate and drank;
and he said, "See now to this cursed woman and bury
her, for she is a king's daughter."
2KI 9:35 And they went to bury her, but they
found no more of her than the skull and the feet and
the palms of her hands.
2KI 9:36 Therefore they returned and told
him. And he said, "This is the word of the Lord,
which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite,
saying, 'In the property of Jezreel the dogs shall
eat the flesh of Jezebel;
2KI 9:37 and the corpse of Jezebel shall be
as dung on the face of the field in the property of
Jezreel, so they cannot say, "This is Jezebel."'"
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2KI 10:1
Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote
letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of
Jezreel, the elders, and to the guardians of the
children of Ahab, saying,
2KI 10:2 "And now, when this letter comes to
you, since your master's sons are with you, as well
as the chariots and horses and a fortified city and
the weapons,
2KI 10:3 select the best and fittest of your
master's sons, and set him on his father's throne,
and fight for your master's house."
2KI 10:4 But they feared greatly and said,
"Behold, the two kings did not stand before him; how
then can we stand?"
2KI 10:5 And the one who was over the
household, and he who was over the city, the elders,
and the guardians of the children, sent word to Jehu,
saying, "We are your servants, all that you say to
us we will do, we will not make any man king; do
what is good in your sight."
2KI 10:6 Then he wrote a letter to them a
second time saying, "If you are on my side, and you
will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men,
your master's sons, and come to me at Jezreel
tomorrow about this time." Now the king's sons,
seventy persons, were with the great men of the
city, who were rearing them.
2KI 10:7 And it came about when the letter
came to them, that they took the king's sons, and
slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their
heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezreel.
2KI 10:8 When the messenger came and told
him, saying, "They have brought the heads of the
king's sons," he said, "Put them in two heaps at the
entrance of the gate until morning."
2KI 10:9 Now it came about in the morning,
that he went out and stood, and said to all the
people, "You are innocent; behold, I conspired
against my master and killed him, but who killed all
these?
2KI 10:10 "Know then that there shall fall to
the earth nothing of the word of the Lord, which the
Lord spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the
Lord has done what He spoke through His servant
Elijah."
2KI 10:11 So Jehu killed all who remained of
the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men
and his acquaintances and his priests, until he left
him without a survivor.
2KI 10:12 Then he arose and departed, and
went to Samaria. On the way while he was at
Beth-eked of the shepherds,
2KI 10:13 Jehu met the relatives of Ahaziah
king of Judah and said, "Who are you?" And they
answered, "We are the relatives of Ahaziah; and we
have come down to greet the sons of the king and the
sons of the queen mother."
2KI 10:14 And he said, "Take them alive." So
they took them alive, and killed them at the pit of
Beth-eked, forty-two men; and he left none of them.
2KI 10:15 Now when he had departed from
there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to
meet him; and he greeted him and said to him, "Is
your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?"
And Jehonadab answered, "It is." Jehu said, "If it
is, give me your hand." And he gave him his hand,
and he took him up to him into the chariot.
2KI 10:16 And he said, "Come with me and see
my zeal for the Lord." So he made him ride in his
chariot.
2KI 10:17 And when he came to Samaria, he
killed all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, until he
had destroyed him, according to the word of the
Lord, which He spoke to Elijah.
2KI 10:18 Then Jehu gathered all the people
and said to them, "Ahab served Baal a little; Jehu
will serve him much.
2KI 10:19 "And now, summon all the prophets
of Baal, all his worshipers and all his priests; let
no one be missing, for I have a great sacrifice for
Baal; whoever is missing shall not live." But Jehu
did it in cunning, in order that he might destroy
the worshipers of Baal.
2KI 10:20 And Jehu said, "Sanctify a solemn
assembly for Baal." And they proclaimed it.
2KI 10:21 Then Jehu sent throughout Israel
and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there
was not a man left who did not come. And when they
went into the house of Baal, the house of Baal was
filled from one end to the other.
2KI 10:22 And he said to the one who was in
charge of the wardrobe, "Bring out garments for all
the worshipers of Baal." So he brought out garments
for them.
2KI 10:23 And Jehu went into the house of
Baal with Jehonadab the son of Rechab; and he said
to the worshipers of Baal, "Search and see that
there may be here with you none of the servants of
the Lord, but only the worshipers of Baal."
2KI 10:24 Then they went in to offer
sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had
stationed for himself eighty men outside, and he had
said, "The one who permits any of the men whom I
bring into your hands to escape, shall give up his
life in exchange."
2KI 10:25 Then it came about, as soon as he
had finished offering the burnt offering, that Jehu
said to the guard and to the royal officers, "Go in,
kill them; let none come out." And they killed them
with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the
royal officers threw them out, and went to the inner
room of the house of Baal.
2KI 10:26 And they brought out the sacred
pillars of the house of Baal, and burned them.
2KI 10:27 They also broke down the sacred
pillar of Baal and broke down the house of Baal, and
made it a latrine to this day.
2KI 10:28 Thus Jehu eradicated Baal out of
Israel.
2KI 10:29 However, as for the sins of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel sin,
from these Jehu did not depart, even the golden
calves that were at Bethel and that were at Dan.
2KI 10:30 And the Lord said to Jehu, "Because
you have done well in executing what is right in My
eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according
to all that was in My heart, your sons of the fourth
generation shall sit on the throne of Israel."
2KI 10:31 But Jehu was not careful to walk in
the law of the Lord, the God of Israel, with all his
heart; he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam,
which he made Israel sin.
2KI 10:32 In those days the Lord began to cut
off portions from Israel; and Hazael defeated them
throughout the territory of Israel:
2KI 10:33 from the Jordan eastward, all the
land of Gilead, the Gadites and the Reubenites and
the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley
of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
2KI 10:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu
and all that he did and all his might, are they not
written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings
of Israel?
2KI 10:35 And Jehu slept with his fathers,
and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son
became king in his place.
2KI 10:36 Now the time which Jehu reigned
over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
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2KI 11:1
When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son
was dead, she rose and destroyed all the royal
offspring.
2KI 11:2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of King
Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of
Ahaziah and stole him from among the king's sons who
were being put to death, and placed him and his
nurse in the bedroom. So they hid him from Athaliah,
and he was not put to death.
2KI 11:3 So he was hidden with her in the
house of the Lord six years, while Athaliah was
reigning over the land.
2KI 11:4 Now in the seventh year Jehoiada
sent and brought the captains of hundreds of the
Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him in
the house of the Lord. Then he made a covenant with
them and put them under oath in the house of the
Lord, and showed them the king's son.
2KI 11:5 And he commanded them, saying, "This
is the thing that you shall do: one third of you,
who come in on the sabbath and keep watch over the
king's house
2KI 11:6 (one third also shall be at the gate
Sur, and one third at the gate behind the guards),
shall keep watch over the house for defense.
2KI 11:7 "And two parts of you, even all who
go out on the sabbath, shall also keep watch over
the house of the Lord for the king.
2KI 11:8 "Then you shall surround the king,
each with his weapons in his hand; and whoever comes
within the ranks shall be put to death. And be with
the king when he goes out and when he comes in."
2KI 11:9 So the captains of hundreds did
according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded.
And each one of them took his men who were to come
in on the sabbath, with those who were to go out on
the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
2KI 11:10 And the priest gave to the captains
of hundreds the spears and shields that had been
King David's, which were in the house of the Lord.
2KI 11:11 And the guards stood each with his
weapons in his hand, from the right side of the
house to the left side of the house, by the altar
and by the house, around the king.
2KI 11:12 Then he brought the king's son out
and put the crown on him, and gave him the
testimony; and they made him king and anointed him,
and they clapped their hands and said, "Long live
the king!"
2KI 11:13 When Athaliah heard the noise of
the guard and of the people, she came to the people
in the house of the Lord.
2KI 11:14 And she looked and behold, the king
was standing by the pillar, according to the custom,
with the captains and the trumpeters beside the
king; and all the people of the land rejoiced and
blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes and
cried, "Treason! Treason!"
2KI 11:15 And Jehoiada the priest commanded
the captains of hundreds who were appointed over the
army, and said to them, "Bring her out between the
ranks, and whoever follows her put to death with the
sword." For the priest said, "Let her not be put to
death in the house of the Lord."
2KI 11:16 So they seized her, and when she
arrived at the horses' entrance of the king's house,
she was put to death there.
2KI 11:17 Then Jehoiada made a covenant
between the Lord and the king and the people, that
they should be the Lord's people, also between the
king and the people.
2KI 11:18 And all the people of the land went
to the house of Baal, and tore it down; his altars
and his images they broke in pieces thoroughly, and
killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
And the priest appointed officers over the house of
the Lord.
2KI 11:19 And he took the captains of
hundreds and the Carites and the guards and all the
people of the land; and they brought the king down
from the house of the Lord, and came by the way of
the gate of the guards to the king's house. And he
sat on the throne of the kings.
2KI 11:20 So all the people of the land
rejoiced and the city was quiet. For they had put
Athaliah to death with the sword at the king's
house.
2KI 11:21 Jehoash was seven years old when he
became king.
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2KI 12:1
In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king,
and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and his
mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2KI 12:2 And Jehoash did right in the sight
of the Lord all his days in which Jehoiada the
priest instructed him.
2KI 12:3 Only the high places were not taken
away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense
on the high places.
2KI 12:4 Then Jehoash said to the priests,
"All the money of the sacred things which is brought
into the house of the Lord, in current money, both
the money of each man's assessment and all the money
which any man's heart prompts him to bring into the
house of the Lord,
2KI 12:5 let the priests take it for
themselves, each from his acquaintance; and they
shall repair the damages of the house wherever any
damage may be found.
2KI 12:6 But it came about that in the
twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had
not repaired the damages of the house.
2KI 12:7 Then King Jehoash called for
Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests and
said to them, "Why do you not repair the damages of
the house? Now therefore take no more money from
your acquaintances, but pay it for the damages of
the house."
2KI 12:8 So the priests agreed that they
should take no more money from the people, nor
repair the damages of the house.
2KI 12:9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest
and bored a hole in its lid, and put it beside the
altar, on the right side as one comes into the house
of the Lord; and the priests who guarded the
threshold put in it all the money which was brought
into the house of the Lord.
2KI 12:10 And when they saw that there was
much money in the chest, the king's scribe and the
high priest came up and tied it in bags and counted
the money which was found in the house of the
