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II Kings Chapter 12

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II Kings

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In this chapter Elijah prays for a sign and God sends a fire that consumes Elisha, leaving him dead, while the people of Israel face a severe drought. The story shows God's judgment on the unfaithful and the return of Elijah to prepare the people for the coming of the Messiah.

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(1) In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
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II Kings 9:27II Kings 11:1II Kings 11:3II Kings 11:4II Kings 11:21II Chronicles 24:1II Chronicles 24:2II Chronicles 24:3II Chronicles 24:4II Chronicles 24:5II Chronicles 24:6II Chronicles 24:7

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II Chronicles 24:1I Kings 14:21II Chronicles 12:13II Kings 13:10II Chronicles 20:31II Chronicles 22:2

(2) And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
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II Kings 14:3II Chronicles 24:2II Chronicles 24:17II Chronicles 24:18II Chronicles 24:19II Chronicles 24:20II Chronicles 24:21II Chronicles 24:22II Chronicles 25:2II Chronicles 26:4

(3) But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
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II Kings 14:4II Kings 18:4I Kings 15:14I Kings 22:43II Chronicles 31:4Jeremiah 2:20

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II Kings 15:4II Kings 15:35II Kings 23:5I Kings 22:43II Kings 14:4II Kings 17:32

(4) And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,
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II Kings 22:4II Chronicles 29:4II Chronicles 29:5II Chronicles 29:6II Chronicles 29:7II Chronicles 29:8II Chronicles 29:9II Chronicles 29:10II Chronicles 29:11II Chronicles 35:2II Kings 12:18I Kings 7:1

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Genesis 42:35Genesis 43:21Genesis 43:12Genesis 43:22Genesis 47:14Genesis 47:15

(5) Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.
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II Chronicles 24:5II Kings 12:12II Kings 22:5II Kings 22:6I Kings 11:27II Chronicles 24:7Isaiah 58:12

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II Kings 12:7II Kings 12:12

(6) But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
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I Samuel 2:29I Samuel 2:30II Chronicles 29:34Isaiah 56:10Isaiah 56:11Isaiah 56:12Malachi 1:10Philippians 2:21I Peter 5:2

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II Kings 12:7Nehemiah 3:4

(7) Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
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II Chronicles 24:5II Chronicles 24:6II Chronicles 24:7II Chronicles 24:8II Chronicles 24:9II Chronicles 24:10II Chronicles 24:11II Chronicles 24:12II Chronicles 24:13II Chronicles 24:14II Kings 12:2II Kings 11:4

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II Kings 12:8II Kings 12:4II Kings 22:5II Kings 12:5II Kings 12:12Genesis 47:15

(8) And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
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II Kings 12:7II Kings 12:4II Kings 5:26II Kings 12:12

(9) But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.
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II Chronicles 24:8II Chronicles 24:9II Chronicles 24:10II Chronicles 24:11II Chronicles 24:12II Chronicles 24:13II Chronicles 24:14Mark 12:41II Kings 22:4II Kings 23:4II Kings 25:18I Chronicles 15:18

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II Kings 12:4II Chronicles 24:11Leviticus 23:38II Kings 6:32Ezekiel 41:3John 18:16

(10) And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD.
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II Kings 19:2II Kings 22:3II Kings 22:12II Samuel 8:17II Samuel 20:25II Kings 5:23

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II Chronicles 24:11II Kings 12:4Esther 8:8Genesis 42:35Genesis 43:12Genesis 43:21

(11) And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD,
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II Kings 22:5II Kings 22:6II Chronicles 24:11II Chronicles 24:12II Chronicles 34:9II Chronicles 34:10II Chronicles 34:11

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II Kings 12:4Exodus 21:30Genesis 43:12

(12) And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
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I Kings 5:17I Kings 5:18Ezra 3:7Ezra 5:8Luke 21:5

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II Kings 22:6Isaiah 28:16Exodus 34:4Haggai 2:15Zechariah 3:9Genesis 29:3

(13) Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the LORD:
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II Chronicles 24:14Numbers 7:13Numbers 7:14I Kings 7:48I Kings 7:49I Kings 7:50Ezra 1:9Ezra 1:10Ezra 1:11Numbers 10:2

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II Chronicles 24:14II Samuel 8:10Exodus 38:17Numbers 7:85I Kings 10:21I Kings 10:25

(14) But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the LORD.
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Nehemiah 3:4

(15) Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
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II Kings 22:7II Chronicles 34:12Nehemiah 7:2Matthew 24:45Luke 16:1Luke 16:10Luke 16:11I Corinthians 4:2I Corinthians 4:3III John 1:5

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II Kings 22:7II Kings 12:4I Samuel 12:3Philippians 3:19II Chronicles 34:17

(16) The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests'.
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Leviticus 5:15Leviticus 5:16Leviticus 5:17Leviticus 5:18Leviticus 7:7Numbers 5:8Numbers 5:9Numbers 5:10Numbers 18:8Numbers 18:9Hosea 4:8

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II Kings 12:4Genesis 42:35Genesis 43:12Genesis 43:21Genesis 43:22Genesis 47:14

(17) Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
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II Kings 8:12II Kings 8:13II Kings 8:14II Kings 8:15I Samuel 27:2I Kings 2:39I Kings 2:40I Chronicles 8:13I Chronicles 18:1Jeremiah 42:15Luke 9:51Luke 9:53

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II Kings 13:3II Kings 8:29II Kings 9:15II Chronicles 22:6I Kings 19:15II Kings 8:9

(18) And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
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II Kings 18:15II Kings 18:16I Kings 15:18II Chronicles 16:2

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I Kings 15:18II Chronicles 22:11Esther 8:8II Kings 8:29II Chronicles 22:6I Kings 14:26

(19) And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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II Kings 8:23I Kings 11:41I Kings 14:19I Kings 14:29

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II Kings 13:12I Kings 11:41I Kings 14:19I Kings 14:29I Kings 15:7I Kings 15:23

(20) And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
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II Kings 14:5II Chronicles 24:24II Chronicles 24:25II Chronicles 25:27II Chronicles 33:24Judges 9:6II Samuel 5:9I Kings 11:27

(21) For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
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II Chronicles 24:26II Chronicles 24:27

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Genesis 36:35Genesis 36:33Genesis 36:34Genesis 36:36Genesis 36:37Genesis 36:38

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