Alpet 2022
King James Version
1. In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba. 2. Jehoash did what was right in the sight of the LORD all the days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. 3. But the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. 4. And Jehoash said to the priests, "All the money of the dedicated gifts that are brought into the house of the LORD––each man’s census money, each man’s assessment money–– and all the money that a man purposes in his heart to bring into the house of the LORD, 5. "let the priests take it themselves, each from his constituency; and let them repair the damages of the temple, wherever any dilapidation is found." 6. Now it was so, by the twenty–third year of King Jehoash, that the priests had not repaired the damages of the temple. 7. So King Jehoash called Jehoiada the priest and the other priests, and said to them, "Why have you not repaired the damages of the temple? Now therefore, do not take more money from your constituency, but deliver it for repairing the damages of the temple." 8. And the priests agreed that they would neither receive more money from the people, nor repair the damages of the temple. 9. Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of the LORD; and the priests who kept the door put there all the money brought into the house of the LORD. 10. So it was, whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest came up and put it in bags, and counted the money that was found in the house of the LORD. 11. Then they gave the money, which had been apportioned, into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of the LORD; and they paid it out to the carpenters and builders who worked on the house of the LORD, 12. and to masons and stonecutters, and for buying timber and hewn stone, to repair the damage of the house of the LORD, and for all that was paid out to repair the temple. 13. However there were not made for the house of the LORD basins of silver, trimmers, sprinkling–bowls, trumpets, any articles of gold or articles of silver, from the money brought into the house of the LORD. 14. But they gave that to the workmen, and they repaired the house of the LORD with it. 15. Moreover they did not require an account from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to be paid to workmen, for they dealt faithfully. 16. The money from the trespass offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD. It belonged to the priests. 17. Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it; then Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem. 18. And Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred things that his fathers, Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred things, and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and in the king’s house, and sent them to Hazael king of Syria. Then he went away from Jerusalem. 19. Now 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? 20. And his servants arose and formed a conspiracy, and killed Joash in the house of the Millo, which goes down to Silla. 21. For Jozachar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him. So he died, and they buried him with his fathers in the City of David. Then Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
1. Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2. "Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it, 3. "and say to it, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against you; I will stretch out My hand against you, And make you most desolate; 4. I shall lay your cities waste, And you shall be desolate. Then you shall know that I am the LORD. 5. "Because you have had an ancient hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, when their iniquity came to an end, 6. "therefore, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you. 7. "Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns. 8. "And I will fill its mountains with the slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those who are slain by the sword shall fall. 9. "I will make you perpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; then you shall know that I am the LORD. 10. "Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them,’ although the LORD was there, 11. "therefore, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will do according to your anger and according to the envy which you showed in your hatred against them; and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you. 12. "Then you shall know that I am the LORD. I have heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to consume.’ 13. "Thus with your mouth you have boasted against Me and multiplied your words against Me; I have heard them ." 14. ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: "The whole earth will rejoice when I make you desolate. 15. "As you rejoiced because the inheritance of the house of Israel was desolate, so I will do to you; you shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, as well as all of Edom––all of it! Then they shall know that I am the LORD."’
1. Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder), 2. that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior, 3. knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, 4. and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation." 5. For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, 6. by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. 7. But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. 8. But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. 10. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. 11. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12. looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? 13. Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. 14. Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless; 15. and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation––as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, 16. as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures. 17. You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked; 18. but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.