(2 Kings) the Queen of Judah and the Boy King — David Guzik

The Historical Crisis in Judah and the Survival of David’s Line

Well, I have to say that I'm excited about these two chapters that we're going to take a look at tonight second Kings chapters 11 and 12. Because I find that the characters in these two chapters are very compelling very Engaging at the same time.

They're relatively unknown to a lot of people who read the Bible I mean I I think of myself as somebody who knows the Bible pretty well and I'm introduced to some characters in these two chapters that I really didn't know too much about.

Before preparing and studying for the teaching that we have tonight. But before we begin here in 2nd Kings chapter 11 I do need to just sort of bring us up to speed with where we were last time. We were together when we studied 2nd Kings chapters 9 and 10 and we saw the very interesting career of this man named Jehu.

Jehu was a man who was a captain in the army of the northern kingdom of Israel and God called him and raised him up as an instrument of judgment. Against the house of Omri the most notable king of the house of Omri was Ahab Omri's son and he called him out against this dynasty of Omri to execute judgment against them.

And he did it with great zeal. Although we saw at the end of our study last time that he didn't quite carry through with everything that he could have. Notably he continued on the idolatry of the golden calf in Dan and in Bethel, but that's another story.

What it brings us up to this evening is to consider that not only did Jehu bring judgment against the northern kingdom. By killing King Joram who was of the dynasty of Omri one of the sons of Ahab. But he also killed the king of the southern kingdom Judah.

His name was Ahaziah. So at this interesting time in the history of God's people there in the promised land. You have a time when both kings were killed at basically the same time. And so what are we going to do about the king for the southern kingdom of Judah?

That's where we bring it up here into chapter 11 verse 1. When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah. That's the king who just got killed by Jehu of the southern kingdom of Judah when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah Saw that her son was dead.

She arose and rose and destroyed all of the royal heirs. But Jehoshibah Jehoshibah the daughter of King Joram the sister of Ahaziah took Joash the son of Ahaziah and Stole him away from among the king's sons who were being murdered and they hid him and his nurse in the bedroom from Athaliah so that he was not killed.

So he was hidden with her in the house of the Lord for six years while Athaliah reigned over the land. Okay, so do we have the picture connecting it with the last time we were together? Ahaziah was executed by Jehu as recorded in 2nd Kings chapter 9.

Now we have here in verse 1 of chapter 11 the rise the power of Athaliah. Now, I don't expect you to remember this, but let me just refresh your memory. Athaliah was the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel. Who was married into the family of the kings of Judah the southern kingdom?

And so this evil wicked woman again the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel two of the most notorious king and queen pairs in the entire Bible. Their daughter now takes the ruling position By force in the southern kingdom of Judah and what she does is a very common thing in the ancient world.

She tries to seize power by murdering every possible other Claimant to the throne if you had a claim to the throne Athaliah wanted to kill you now. Let me just ask you a question here. Did you know before tonight that there were six years in the history of Judah where basically they were ruled by a queen.

They were ruled by a woman this woman Athaliah and not just any Queen. We would call her the Queen Mother because she was the actually the mother of the murdered King. But this Queen Mother ruled over Judah for six years and she was the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel.

Well, she thought that she was going to murder every possible claimant to the throne so that nobody could oppose her reign and it says there in verse 1 that she destroyed all the royal heirs and After Jehu's coup d 'etat in the northern kingdom of Israel Athaliah tried to save something for Ahab's family by trying to eliminate the house of David and Judah.

In other words she thought what Jehu did to the house of Omri her family line in the northern kingdom I'm gonna do to the line of David in the southern kingdom. I want to destroy them all. Now before I go any further, I want you to think about this.

Years before the king of Judah whose name was Jehoshaphat Married his son to the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel hoping to make an alliance with those wicked leaders Of that apostate nature and this was the fruit of it all this is where it all ended up after that wicked alliance with the family of Ahab and Jezebel and So this woman Athaliah did everything she could to eliminate all the descendants of David.

I want to remind you that there's a sense in which there's the sovereign promise of God writing on this. Because God has promised a few things first of all that it would be the descendants of David who reigned over Israel for At least over Judah at least part of the ten tribes forever and ever but then also God promised that the Messiah would come from the descendants of David.

If Athaliah is successful in wiping out all the descendants of David then the promise of God is defeated. So it doesn't surprise us at all that at this critical moment when there's somebody no doubt satanically inspired who is coming this close to destroying the sovereign plan of God that God raises up a Godly person to step into the gap and that's where it comes in to burst you.

I love this look at it here, but Jehoshaphat. Have you ever heard of Jehoshaphat before this little-known woman had an important place in God's plan of the ages. Through her courage through her ingenuity She preserved the royal line of David through which the Messiah would come.

I Mean look at what she did. It says. But Jehoshaphat the daughter of King Joram sister of Ahaziah Took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the king's sons who were being murdered. And they hid him and his nurse in the bedroom from Athaliah so that he was not killed.

This one courageous woman said I'm not going to see the entire royal line of David wiped out. I'm gonna take this little boy, and I'm gonna hide him away. And I'm gonna keep him hidden in what you might call a hiding place for six years.

I Want you to think about this? Evil people like Athaliah will always try to do their work in this world. But God can always raise up a Jehoshaphat right? God can do it and we should pray for God's to raise up Jehoshaphat's people who will step in at that critical moment and do this great work now by the way 2nd Chronicles chapter 22 tells us that Jehoshaphat was the wife of Jehodia the high priest which is an interesting Tidbit to know about her life.

We find more about some of these details in 2nd Chronicles chapter 22. And so it says there in verse 3 that he was hidden with her in the house of the Lord for six years. Now even though Ahaziah was a bad king the one who was killed he made evil alliances.

Yet he was still a descendant of David and a successor of his royal line. And so for the sake of David God remembered his promise and spared this one young survivor. From the massacre of Athaliah the line of David was almost extinguished.

And it continued only in the presence of a small little boy. But God preserved that flickering flame, that's what I look at. I look at Athaliah trying to stomp out every flame of God's promise there. It's a line of David and she almost succeeds except for one little candle that's barely burning and God will fan that one little flickering flame into Existence until it grows up and until something great happens right there.

And so like the little boy Samuel Joash this descendant of David and the murdered King Ahaziah. Joash grew up in the temple and like Samuel he probably found little ways to help the priests. Whatever could be done without attracting too much attention.

Jehoiada Reveals the Hidden King

Now verse 4 in the seventh year Jehodiah sent and brought the captains of Hundreds of the bodyguards and the escorts and brought them into the house of the Lord to him. And he made a covenant with them and took an oath from them in the house of the Lord and showed them the king's son.

Then he commanded them saying this is what you shall do. One third of you you who come on duty on the Sabbath shall be keeping watch over the king's house. One third shall be at the gate of Sur and one third at the gate behind the escorts.

You shall keep the watch of the house Lest it be broken down. The two contingents of you who go off duty on the Sabbath shall keep the watch of the house of the Lord for the king. But you shall surround the king on all sides.

Every man with his weapons in hands and whoever comes within range. Let him be put to death. You are to be with the king as he goes out and as he comes in. So the captains of the hundreds did according to all the Jehodiah the priest commanded.

Every one of them took his men who were to be on duty on the Sabbath with those who were going off duty on the Sabbath and came to Jehodiah the priest and the priest gave the captains of hundreds the spears and the shields.

Which had belonged to King David that were in the temple of the Lord. Then the escorts stood every man with his weapons in his hand. All around the king from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple by the altar and the house.

See now's the moment. It's been six years that this boy has been hidden away and now Jehodiah who's the high priest? He says now it's the time to depose this this wicked Queen from ruling over Judah. She has no authority here.

She's not part of the plan of God. We're gonna end her wicked reign right now. And so he brought forth the captains of the army. He was a godly man who was concerned about restoring the throne of David to the line of David and taking it away.

From this daughter of Ahab and Jezebel and so he chose the Sabbath day to do it. Do you remember the mentions of the Sabbath in the passage that we just read? He did that because that was the day when the guards changed their shifts and they could be Assembled into two groups of guards at the temple at the same time without attracting attention.

And so he made a covenant with them. It says there in verse 4 and he took an oath from them in the house of the Lord. And from the place where they made the oath. Can you imagine they're there right by the temple taking the solemn oath?

And there in the house of the Lord and the context of the oath. We learned that the worship of the true God was not dead in Judah. These captains and bodyguards and escorts could respond to their Responsibility before the Lord.

And then it says you have to love how it says it's there. It says. And then he showed them the king's son. Isn't that thrilling there? You can imagine what that was like when they brought out this boy.

Here's the king of Judah. Athaliah didn't kill them all and you can just imagine this little boy walking out. They're trying to look so old and so brave you know. And the people around him the Excitement the buzz in the air because they were sick of this demonic reign of Athaliah.

The end for six years. Everyone believed that there were no more surviving heirs of David's royal line and that there was no Legitimate ruler to displace the wicked Athaliah. The secret had to be secure because the king's son would be Immediately killed if his existence was made known.

And so the captains and the bodyguards and the escorts as it says there. They must have been shocked by seeing this six-year-old heir to the throne. Now once you think about it, just remember put you put the pause button on in your mind for a minute.

How was this wicked woman? Athaliah able to reign as a queen over Judah for six years. I'll give you one big reason why. Because no one knew there was an alternative. No one knew there was any other option, right?

Well, yeah, we have Athaliah. But what else do we have? She killed all the descendants of David. Nobody knew of any other alternative and I just thought of that as I was reflecting on this passage that many people Live under the reign of Satan because they really don't know that there's a legitimate King ready to take up reign in their life.

You know, they live under bondage to sin and self and Satan and one of the reasons why they do is they just think well. What other option do I have? Is there really any other way to live? That's just how life is.

They don't know the glorious Liberty of the sons of God and you just imagine as this boy king was brought out. By the way, I love it in that section that we just read. Do you see how often it refers to him as the king the king the king we read that we go?

Well, he's not a king. He's just a kid but doesn't say the kid the kid the kid it says the king. Because he was a king. He didn't look like a king. He wasn't even shaving a beard yet. You know, he maybe hadn't even reached puberty yet.

I wonder if his voice had even you know changed at all. He's the king with a very high squeaky voice or something like that. But nevertheless, he's the king. Because of who he is. And so it says there and I love this too.

It says that he gave the captains of hundreds the spears and the shields which had belonged to King David. That were in the temple of the Lord. Can you imagine how much courage those men gained? How would you feel to put on your arm the shield of King David?

To feel it hundreds of years old at that time, but still you could just almost feel the strength Radiating from that mighty warrior for the cause of God and so these men were ready to defend this this Descendant of David who was now going to be revealed and so now verse 12 It says and he brought out the king's son put the crown on him and gave him the testimony.

They put a copy of the Word of God in his hand and they made him king and anointed him and they clapped their hands And said long live the king. Now I want you to think about this think about the steps in Restoring a rightful king.

Okay. These are the steps in restoring a rightful king. Apply it to your life to here. Number one. The king has to be revealed. It says he brought out the king's son. No one could support him. No one could could encourage him as he took his rightful throne until he's brought out before the people.

And so when we want people to give their allegiance to King Jesus The first thing you have to do is reveal Jesus unto them. You have to show them Jesus secondly. You have to be crowned. They put the crown on him.

There has to be a public and Official recognition of this person is king. Isn't that necessary if somebody's gonna recognize King Jesus it has to be public. It has to be open. Secondly the king's son had come with the Word of God.

I love this picture. Joash the boy King comes out before the people of God Holding the scrolls of God's Word. It says there and they gave him the testimony. Did you know that in Deuteronomy chapter 17?

It says that the king should have his own Copy of the scriptures and there was Joash's little copy right there in his hands as he walks out before them and then forth. They made him king. It says it right there in verse 12 that they made him king.

I want you to think about the strange paradox that we have here. He was king without anybody making him king, right? He was king because of the royal right of being a descendant of David of the royal line.

Nevertheless They still had to recognize his reign and isn't it just that same way with Jesus that? Jesus Christ is king whether you recognize it or not. He just is. Nevertheless, there is still a sense that if you want to benefit from his reign you must recognize him as king you must make him king and then it says they Anointed him and then they clapped their hands and said long live the king.

The king's son received praise as he was recognized as their king. Well, we can and we should follow the same pattern in our reception of Jesus Christ. He's the true king's son. Let me read to you a wonderful quotation here from FB Meyer.

Receiving Jesus as King and Lord

I think he catches a thought very well here. He says is not the spiritual condition of too many children of God Represented by the condition of the temple during the early years of the life of Joash. The king was within its precincts the rightful heir of the crown and defender of the worship of Jehovah but as a matter of fact the crown was on the head of the usurper Athaliah who was Exercising a cruel and wicked tyranny.

The king was limited to a chamber and the majority of the priests with all the people had not even heard of his existence. There needs to be an anointing and a throning a Determination that he shall exercise his power over the entire temple of our being.

See as long as that king was shut up into one little room of the temple hidden away not bothering everybody Athaliah could do her thing. But as soon as you bring out the king and put him in his rightful place.

Then and only then Athaliah is going to be put in her place. And that's what we look forward to with great anticipation here starting at verse 13 where it says now when Athaliah Heard the noise of the escorts and the people she came to the people in the temple of the Lord when she looked.

There was the king Standing by a pillar according to custom and the leaders of the trumpeters were by the king. All the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets so Athaliah tore her clothes and cried out treason treason.

Can you imagine how this looked to her this this? Wicked rebellious Queen Mother she saw something that in her eyes was a horrifying sight. She ruled for six years. Because she believed and everybody else believed that there was no legitimate Claimant to the throne of David now.

She saw that one son of Ahaziah Joash who by the way was her own grandson. That he escaped her murderous intent and then when she saw that you imagine how horrified she was. I'd say what horrified her more than that was not just seeing that there was a grandson that she failed to murder.

Can you imagine a grandmother wanting to murder her own grandchildren? This is how wicked this woman was. She saw that there was one grandson that she failed to murder and then she saw how happy everybody was about it.

She saw how everybody was rejoicing over it and she must have just thought I've lost it. This is it and you know She had lost it. She cried out treason. Treason and might I say I think it was a legitimate charge.

This was treason against the government of Athaliah. This was rebellion against her authority and you know what praise God for that kind of rebellion. Praise God for people who will see ungodly Unrighteous authority when they'll see the the authority of the devil in their life so to speak and they'll rebel against it.

I think a little bit of rebellion within a person can be good. You just have to channel the rebellion against the right things. You have to rebel against the world the flesh and the devil. And you have to be sick of the devil's reign in your life.

Covenant Renewal and the Destruction of Baal Worship

Well, that's exactly how the people were and rightfully I think the devil could sometimes say to us treason. You know, you're rebelling against me. Well, yes, I am I'm happy to do that. And so now verse 15 and Jehodiah the priest Commanded the captains of the hundreds the officers of the army and said to them take her outside Under guard and slay with the sword whoever follows her for the priest had said do not let her be killed in the house Of the Lord.

So they seized her and she went by the way of the horse's entrance into the king's house and there She was killed. Now this was both a righteous and a Reasonable thing to do. It was a just sentence against this woman.

This woman was a cruel bloodthirsty Murderer and Careful precautions were taken so that she could be executed righteously and anybody who would want to follow her. But we don't read of anybody following her.

Do we. And yet he had a great and I'm speaking of Jehodiah here the high priest. He had a great concern for the sanctity and the reputation of the temple. And so he would not execute her unto death there at the temple.

He had her carried outside. Now verse 17 then Jehodiah made a covenant between the Lord the king and the people that they should be the Lord's people and Also between the king and the people. Isn't that beautiful?

When the Opposition to the righteous reign of God is a limited Eliminated then they make a glorious covenant between the Lord the king and the people they recommitted themselves to honor To obey and to serve God.

I want you to notice something too. It's very interesting if you're interested in political theory here in verse 17. Verse 17 shows us something. It says that there is an obligation a mutual obligation between the people the Lord and the king in Other words that the king has obligations to the people not just the people.

Obligations to the king. There was a political theory which was very popular. You know at a certain time in the Middle Ages that was called the divine right of kings and basically what the divine right of kings said was that God put the king in power and Therefore you must always obey the king and the king is always right.

And you must always follow what the king says. And what this shows us is that while the people do have legitimate Obligations to the king the king also has obligations to the people that they must observe or that the king must observe and So now verse 18 and all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down.

They thoroughly broken pieces its altars and images and killed Matan the priest of Baal before the altars and the priest appointed officers over the house of the Lord and he took the captains of the hundreds of the bodyguards the Escorts and all the people of the land and they brought the king down from the house of the Lord and went by the Way of the gate of the escorts to the king's house.

Then he sat on the throne of the Kings. So the people of the land rejoiced and the city was quiet for they had slain Athaliah with the sword in the king's house. Jehoash was seven years old when he became king.

Isn't that impressive now last time we were together in 2nd Kings chapter 10 We saw how Jehu supervised the destruction of the temple of Baal in Samaria the capital city of the northern kingdom here the temple of Baal in Jerusalem.

It isn't that it doesn't that shock you to think that there was a temple of Baal in Jerusalem. Oh sure. You had a temple unto the Lord, but you also had a temple unto Baal. But that's the kind of wickedness that Athaliah this Queen Mother had.

Anyway, they destroyed the temple of Baal in Jerusalem. And apparently it was destroyed by the people of the land. The people just said no, we're not going to have this anymore. And they didn't stop at destroying the building itself.

They went on to destroy both the sacred objects dedicated to Baal and to kill Matan the priest of Baal. Again it's interesting to fill in some of the missing pieces here from 2nd Chronicles. From 2nd Chronicles.

We find out one of the reasons why the people of Jerusalem and Judah Resented the temple of Baal so much. It was because Athaliah was so wicked that she took some of the sacred vessels. I don't know. We're not told specifically what you know, maybe it was.

You know. Furniture like the table of soul bread or the altar of incense or lesser things of the temple. But she took articles that belonged to the temple of the Lord and she put them in. The temple of Baal and that got the people mad.

They didn't like that and so when they got sick of it when Athaliah was gone. They just went in and they destroyed that temple and then Josiah came or excuse me Joash came and sat on the throne of the Kings after six dark years.

Now the rightful king of Judah once again ruled over his very very grateful people and so Here we come now into chapter 12, but I got to say before we leave chapter 11 and come into chapter 12. Isn't that sort of shocking?

Did you ever stop and consider that before. That there was a time in the history of Judah when it was ruled by a queen and a wicked queen at that. Actually the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel and it was only through the courage of this Almost anonymous woman look again at verse 2 of chapter 11 before we move on to chapter 12.

Jehoshiva, you know, that should be a hero to people. Wouldn't you love it if you could just teach about. I know I would love it if I could teach a Sermon, you know on a Sunday morning and just mention Jehoshiva and everybody would know who you're talking about.

I Can't say that if you know a week ago if you would have said Jehoshiva to me I would have said excuse me. Who are you talking about? But isn't this really one of the great people of the Bible. A small mention, but it was her courage in the face of Genuine genuine threat that really furthered the work of God and kept the line of David from being completely extinguished.

What amazing courage we have in this chapter. There's courage from Jehoshiva. There's courage from Jehodiah the high priest and might I say that there's courage on behalf of that little boy seven years old.

Don't you think that that's a little young for him to take the throne? You can see that Jehodiah the high priest said listen. I Wish we could wait another four or five years, but Athaliah is destroying this kingdom.

We have to do something now and so they did. Anyway, he's on the throne now only seven years old. So we move from Judah having a queen mother to now having a seven year old king. Now on to chapter 12 verse 1 in the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash became king now.

I need to stop right here. Don't get confused. We were just speaking of. We were just speaking of Jehoash and now in verse 1 we hear of Jehoash. You say well, who's this Jehoash? I thought we were just reading about joy.

Don't let it confuse you. It's the same Person just with slightly different spellings to the name. So don't let it confuse you at all. We're talking about the same person verse 1 again in the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash became king and he reigned 40 years in Jerusalem.

His mother's name was Zibnah of Beersheba. Jehoash did what was right in the sight of the Lord all the days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. But the high places were not taken away the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

Jehoash’s Partial Reform and the Danger of Convenient Worship

What this was a long and mostly blessed reign 40 years. Now we have to say that Jehoash fell short of the full commitment and complete godliness that we would like to see Among the kings of Judah after all he did allow the high places to remain.

Should we remind ourselves what the high places were all about. The high places were places of unauthorized sacrifice. They were places where people would sacrifice animals unto the Lord on Altars that they had built themselves or that people had built before them, but not at the temple of Jerusalem.

You know what? It was kind of about it was about convenient worship. Oh, I want to make a sacrifice to the Lord. But I don't want to go all the way to Jerusalem. Just do it on top of the hill at the high place.

Hey, that's a lot easier. Don't people fall into the same thinking today the worship of Convenience. Instead of really doing it the way God wants you to. Well, that was exactly the problem with the high places.

So in one way, it wasn't a bad sin. It's not like they were worshiping Baal or Ashtoreth on the high places. But yet we have to say that it wasn't what the Lord wanted either and they shouldn't have done it.

Anyway, he did not take away the high places, but we do like what we do read about him in verse 2. Jehoash did what was right in the sight of the Lord all the days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

This implies though that when Jehoiada died Joash no longer did what was right in the sight of the Lord. I have to say we fill in things from the book of 2nd Chronicles. 2nd Chronicles chapter 24 tells us that he turned to idolatry when Jehoiada died and then judgment followed.

We don't read about it here in 2nd Kings. But you can read about it in 2nd Chronicles chapter 24 that after the death of the godly high priest Jehoash fell into the hands of godless advisors who turned his heart over to Canaanite pagan practices.

But even while Jehoiada was alive this godly high priest they did not take away the high places. Now verse 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 Senses money each man's assessment money and all the money that a man Purposes in his heart to bring to the house of the Lord let the priests take it Themselves each from his constituency and let them repair the damages of the temple wherever any dilapidation is found.

This just speaks of what they would do with the regular income that came into the temple from several different sources. King Jehoash wanted to put the money that came into the temple from the people Towards a particular purpose.

Now the money came in three different ways again. Take a look at here verses 4 and 5 it says that the money came from each man's census money. Exodus chapter 20 describes was what the census money was all about.

It was the half Shekel that each Israelite who was older than the age of 20 had to pay every year so every year. Every Israelite now I have to say I'm thinking it's every Israelite man Over 20 years old had to pay half a shekel for the census.

Then there was again in verse 4 each man's Assessment money that is literally Each man the money of his soul of his estimating. This was sort of a property tax based on the personal Assessment of each individual it seems to be mentioned in Leviticus chapter 27.

So it's sort of a tax money that they would apply and then it said again in verse 4 all the money that a man Purposes in his heart to bring into the house of the Lord these were freely given offerings over and above the required donations.

Repairing the Temple Through Faithful Stewardship

Now all of these things were being collected. But they weren't being put towards the proper purpose and therefore the temple was a ruin. The temple looked like a junkie old building Greatly in need of renovation and so Joash commanded let them repair the damages of the Temple.

Now I have to say here isn't this natural. Where did Joash or Jehoash you could call him by either one? Where did he grow up? He grew up in the temple, right? He was you know in a way in a little tiny room there growing up until he was seven years old and then finally they Made him the king.

He knew that temple inside and out and I bet he thought man when I get older and when I'm the king I'm gonna fix this place up. It's a disgrace how this place is. He knew that the money was coming in but it was not being put to the correct purpose.

By the way, 2nd Chronicles chapter 24 again tells us why the restoration was needed and it's because the temple was basically Vandalized by Athaliah and her sons and so they gathered the money for the work.

Look now at verse 6 now It was so by the 23rd year of King Jehoash that the priest had not repaired the damages of the temple. 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 the repairing of the damages of the temple and The priests agreed that they would need to receive more money from the teeth from the people nor repair the damages of the temple.

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 priest who kept the door put there all the money brought into the house of the Lord.

So it was that whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest that the king Scribe and the high priest came up put it in bags and counted the money that was found in the house of the Lord. And 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 to the carpenters and to the builders who worked on the house of the Lord and to the masons and the stone cutters.

For buying timber and hewn stone to repair the damages of the house of the Lord and for all that was paid out to repair The temple however, there were not made for the house of the Lord basins of silver trimmers Sprinkling bowls trumpets and any articles of gold or silver from the money brought into the house of the Lord.