Verse 1
2 Kings 12:1
Darby Translation
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In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
Original Language Text
hebrew
בֶּן שֶׁ֥בַע שָׁנִ֖ים יְהוֹאָ֥שׁ בְּ/מָלְכֽ/וֹ
English Translation
Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 12 Context
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In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and hi...
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And Jehoash did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, all the days wherein Jehoiada the priest ins...
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Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high p...
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And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the hallowed things that is brought into the house...
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let the priests take it, every man of his acquaintance; and let them repair the breaches of the hous...
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And it was [so that] in the twenty-third year of king Jehoash, the priests had not repaired the brea...
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Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the priests, and said to them, Why have ye not...
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And the priests consented to receive no money of the people, and that they should only repair the br...
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And Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid, and set it beside the altar, on t...
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And it came to pass when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and...
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And they gave the money, weighed out into the hands of them that did the work, who were appointed ov...
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and to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the h...
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However there were not made for the house of Jehovah basons of silver, knives, bowls, trumpets, nor...
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but they gave that to the workmen, and repaired the house of Jehovah with it.
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And they did not reckon with the men into whose hand they gave the money to be bestowed on workmen;...
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The money of trespass-offerings, and the money of sin-offerings, was not brought into the house of J...
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Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it. And Hazael set his face to...
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And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his...
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And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chro...
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And his servants rose up and made a conspiracy, and smote Joash in the house of Millo, at the descen...
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And Jozachar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him and he die...
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