2 Kings 12:7

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Then King Joash called for Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and said to them, Why are you not repairing the [Lord's] house? Do not take any more money from your acquaintances, but turn it all over for the repair of the house. [You are no longer responsible for this work. I will take it into my own hands.]

Cross References

2 Kings 11:4

In the seventh year Jehoiada [the priest, Jehosheba's husband] sent for the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guards or runners and brought them to him to the house of the Lord and made a covenant with them and took an oath from them in the house of the Lord and showed them the king's [hidden] son.

2 Kings 12:2

Joash did right in the sight of the Lord all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

2 Kings 12:6

But in the twenty-third year of King Joash's reign the priests had not made the needed repairs on the Lord's house.

2 Kings 12:8

And the priests consented to receive no more money from the people, nor to repair the breaches of the house.

1 Chronicles 21:3

And Joab answered, May the Lord multiply His people a hundred times! But, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? Why then does my lord require this? Why will he bring guilt upon Israel?

2 Chronicles 23:1

IN THE seventh year Jehoiada [the priest] took strength and courage and made a covenant with the captains of hundreds: Azariah son of Jeroham, Ishmael son of Jehohanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zichri.

2 Chronicles 24:16

They buried him in the City of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel and toward God and His house.

Haggai 1:2

Thus says the Lord of hosts: These people say, The time is not yet come that the Lord's house should be rebuilt [although Cyrus had ordered it done eighteen years before]. [Ezra 1:1-6; 4:1-6, 24; 5:1-3.]