2 Kings 12: Jehoash Repairs the Temple – Clear & Engaging Audio Bible Reading | The Restoration of the Temple, the Collecting of Funds, and the Oversight of Work

Immerse yourself in the compelling events of 2 Kings 12 with this clear and engaging audio recording. Follow the story of Jehoash’s restoration of the Temple, the collection of funds for repair, and the oversight of work. Perfect for study, reflection, or meditation, experience the Scriptures coming alive.

2 KINGS 12 (NIV)

1 In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem
forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.

2 Joash did
what was right in the eyes of the Lord all the years Jehoiada the priest
instructed him.

3 The high places, however, were not removed; the people
continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.

4 Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money that is brought as sacred
offerings to the temple of the Lord—the money collected in the census, the
money received from personal vows and the money brought voluntarily to the
temple.

5 Let every priest receive the money from one of the treasurers, then
use it to repair whatever damage is found in the temple.”

6 But by the twenty-third year of King Joash the priests still had not
repaired the temple.

7 Therefore King Joash summoned Jehoiada the priest and
the other priests and asked them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage done to
the temple? Take no more money from your treasurers, but hand it over for
repairing the temple.”

8 The priests agreed that they would not collect any
more money from the people and that they would not repair the temple
themselves.

9 Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid. He placed it
beside the altar, on the right side as one enters the temple of the Lord. The
priests who guarded the entrance put into the chest all the money that was
brought to the temple of the Lord.

10 Whenever they saw that there was a large
amount of money in the chest, the royal secretary and the high priest came,
counted the money that had been brought into the temple of the Lord and put it
into bags.

11 When the amount had been determined, they gave the money to the
men appointed to supervise the work on the temple. With it they paid those who
worked on the temple of the Lord—the carpenters and builders,

12 the masons
and stonecutters. They purchased timber and blocks of dressed stone for the
repair of the temple of the Lord, and met all the other expenses of restoring
the temple.

13 The money brought into the temple was not spent for making silver basins,
wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets or any other articles of gold or
silver for the temple of the Lord;

14 it was paid to the workers, who used it
to repair the temple.

15 They did not require an accounting from those to whom
they gave the money to pay the workers, because they acted with complete
honesty.

16 The money from the guilt offerings and sin offerings was not
brought into the temple of the Lord; it belonged to the priests.

17 About this time Hazael king of Aram went up and attacked Gath and captured
it. Then he turned to attack Jerusalem.

18 But Joash king of Judah took all
the sacred objects dedicated by his predecessors—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram and
Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—and the gifts he himself had dedicated and all the
gold found in the treasuries of the temple of the Lord and of the royal
palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram, who then withdrew from
Jerusalem.

19 As for the other events of the reign of Joash, and all he did, are they not
written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

20 His officials
conspired against him and assassinated him at Beth Millo, on the road down to
Silla.

21 The officials who murdered him were Jozabad son of Shimeath and
Jehozabad son of Shomer. He died and was buried with his ancestors in the City
of David. And Amaziah his son succeeded him as king.