Verse 2
2 Kings 12:2
World English Bible, British Edition
2
Jehoash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all his days in which
Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
Original Language Text
hebrew
בִּ/שְׁנַת שֶׁ֤בַע לְ/יֵהוּא֙ מָלַ֣ךְ יְהוֹאָ֔שׁ וְ/אַרְבָּעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֔ה מָלַ֖ךְ בִּ/ירֽוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וְ/שֵׁ֣ם אִמּ֔/וֹ צִבְיָ֖ה מִ/בְּאֵ֥ר שָֽׁבַע
English Translation
In the seventh year of Jehoahaz, King Jehoash reigned for forty years in Jerusalem, and his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
Done.
Sign in to save notes and annotations.
Chapter 12 Context
1
Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty
years in Jerusalem. His mot...
Focus ↗
2
Jehoash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all his days in which
Jehoiada the priest instru...
3
However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed
and burnt incense in the h...
Focus ↗
4
Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things
that is brought into the LORD’s house...
Focus ↗
5
let the priests take it to them, each man from his donor; and they shall
repair the damage to the ho...
Focus ↗
6
But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the
priests had not repaired the damage...
Focus ↗
7
Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests,
and said to them, “Why...
Focus ↗
8
The priests consented that they should take no more money from
the people, and not repair the damage...
Focus ↗
9
But Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid, and
set it beside the altar, on th...
Focus ↗
10
When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe
and the high priest came up,...
Focus ↗
11
They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who
did the work, who had the overs...
Focus ↗
12
and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and
cut stone to repair the damage to...
Focus ↗
13
But there were not made for the LORD’s house cups of silver, snuffers,
basins, trumpets, any vessels...
Focus ↗
14
for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired the LORD’s
house with it.
Focus ↗
15
Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand
they delivered the money to g...
Focus ↗
16
The money for the trespass offerings and the money for the sin offerings
was not brought into the LO...
Focus ↗
17
Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and
took it; and Hazael set his face to g...
Focus ↗
18
Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and
Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers...
Focus ↗
19
Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren’t
they written in the book of the chron...
Focus ↗
20
His servants arose and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house
of Millo, on the way that go...
Focus ↗
21
For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his
servants, struck him, and he d...
Focus ↗