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And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the βdedicated things that is brought into the house of the Lord, even the moneya of every one that passeth the account, the money δthat every man is set at, and all the money that ζcometh into any man’s heartc to bring into the house of the Lord,

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holinesses, or, holy things.

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2 Kings 22:4• ⁴Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of Jehovah, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people: (2 Kings 22:4)

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Ex. 30:13• ¹³{i}This shall they give—every one that passeth among them that are numbered—half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary, —twenty gerahs the shekel; a half shekel shall be the heave-offering for Jehovah.{/i} (Ex. 30:13)

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of the souls of his estimation,

Lev. 27:2• ²Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When a man devoteth by a vow, the persons [shall be] for Jehovah by thy valuation. (Lev. 27:2)

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ascendeth upon the heart of a man.

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Ex. 35:5• ⁵{i}Take from among you a heave-offering to Jehovah: every one whose heart is willing, let him bring it, Jehovah's heave-offering—gold, and silver, and copper,{/i} (Ex. 35:5)

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Heart,

House,

Jehoash,

Money,

Priest; Priesthood

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A.M. 3148.

B.C. 856.

said to the priests.

2 Kings 22:4• ⁴Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of Jehovah, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people: (2 Kings 22:4)

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2 Chron. 29:4‑11• ⁴And he brought in the priests and the Levites and gathered them together into the east street,
⁵and said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of Jehovah God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.
⁶For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of Jehovah our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Jehovah, and turned their backs.
⁷Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
⁸Wherefore the wrath of Jehovah was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
⁹For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
¹⁰Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with Jehovah God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
¹¹My sons, be not now negligent: for Jehovah hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense. (2 Chron. 29:4‑11)

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2 Chron. 35:2• ²{i}And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of Jehovah.{/i} (2 Chron. 35:2)

the money.

2 Kings 12:18• ¹⁸{i}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 found in the treasures of the house of Jehovah and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem.{/i} (2 Kings 12:18)

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1 Kings 7:1• ¹{i}And Solomon was thirteen years building his own house; and he finished all his house.{/i} (1 Kings 7:1)

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1 Chron. 18:11• ¹¹{i}Them also king David dedicated to Jehovah, with the silver and the gold that he had brought from all the nations:{/i} from Edom and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek. (1 Chron. 18:11)

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2 Chron. 15:18• ¹⁸And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels. (2 Chron. 15:18)

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2 Chron. 31:12• ¹²{i}and brought in the heave-offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully; and over these Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was second.{/i} (2 Chron. 31:12)

dedicated things.

or, holy things.

Heb. holiness.

Lev. 5:15‑16• ¹⁵If any one commit a perfidy, and sin inadvertently in the holy things of Jehovah, then he shall bring his trespass offering to Jehovah, a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to thine estimation by shekels of silver after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.
¹⁶And he shall make restitution for what he hath done amiss in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering; and it shall be forgiven him. (Lev. 5:15‑16)

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Lev. 27:12‑27,31• ¹²and the priest shall value it, between good and bad: according to thy valuation, O priest, so shall it be.
¹³And if they will in any wise redeem it, then they shall add a fifth thereof according to thy valuation.
¹⁴And when anyone halloweth his house, that it may be holy to Jehovah, the priest shall value it, between good and bad: as the priest shall value it, so shall it stand.
¹⁵And if he that halloweth it will redeem his house, he shall add the fifth of the money of thy valuation to it, and it shall be his.
¹⁶And if a man hallow to Jehovah out of a field of his possession, thy valuation shall be according to the seed thereof: the homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver.
¹⁷If he hallow his field from the year of jubilee, according to thy valuation it shall stand;
¹⁸but if he hallow his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain until the year of the jubilee, and there shall be a reduction from thy valuation.
¹⁹And if he that hallowed the field will in any wise redeem it, he shall add the fifth of the money of thy valuation unto it, and it shall be assured to him;
²⁰but if he do not redeem the field, or if he sell the field to another man, it cannot be redeemed anymore;
²¹and the field when it goeth out in the jubilee, shall be holy to Jehovah as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.
²²And if he hallow to Jehovah a field that he hath bought, which [is] not the field of his possession,
²³the priest shall reckon to him the amount of thy valuation unto the year of the jubilee; and he shall give thy valuation on that day, holy unto Jehovah.
²⁴In the year of the jubilee the field shall return to him of whom it was bought, to him to whom the possession of the land [belonged].
²⁵And all thy valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
²⁶Only the firstling among beasts, which is made a firstling to Jehovah, no man shall sanctify it: whether [it be] ox or sheep, it [is] Jehovah's.
²⁷And if [it be] of an unclean beast, then he shall ransom [it] according to thine estimation, and shall add to it the fifth thereof; or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thine estimation.
³¹And if a man will redeem [aught] of his tithe, he shall add to it the fifth thereof. (Lev. 27:12‑27,31)

even the money.

2 Kings 22:4• ⁴Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of Jehovah, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people: (2 Kings 22:4)

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Ex. 30:12‑16• ¹²{i}When thou shalt take the sum of the children of Israel according to those of them that are numbered, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul to Jehovah on their being numbered, that there be no plague among them on their being numbered.{/i}
¹³{i}This shall they give—every one that passeth among them that are numbered—half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary, —twenty gerahs the shekel; a half shekel shall be the heave-offering for Jehovah.{/i}
¹⁴{i}Every one that passeth among those that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give the heave-offering of Jehovah.{/i}
¹⁵{i}The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when ye give the heave-offering of Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.{/i}
¹⁶{i}And thou shalt take the atonement-money of the children of Israel, and devote it to the service of the tent of meeting; and it shall be a memorial to the children of Israel before Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.{/i} (Ex. 30:12‑16)

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2 Chron. 24:9‑10• ⁹{i}and they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring to Jehovah the tribute of Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.{/i}
¹⁰{i}And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in and cast into the chest, until they had finished.{/i} (2 Chron. 24:9‑10)

that every may is set at.

Heb. of the souls of hisestimation.

Lev. 27:2‑8• ²Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When a man devoteth by a vow, the persons [shall be] for Jehovah by thy valuation.
³And thy valuation shall be of the male from twenty years old even to sixty years old: even thy valuation shall be sixty shekels of silver after the shekel of the sanctuary.
⁴And if for a female, then thy valuation shall be thirty shekels.
⁵And if from five years old even to twenty years old, then thy valuation of the male shall be twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
⁶And if from a month old even to five years old, then thy valuation of the male shall be five shekels of silver, and for the female thy valuation [shall be] three shekels of silver.
⁷And if from sixty years old and above, if a male, then thy valuation shall be fifteen shekels; and for the female ten shekels.
⁸And if he be poorer than thy valuation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his means that vowed shall the priest value him. (Lev. 27:2‑8)

and all the money.

Ex. 25:1‑2• ¹{i}And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,{/i}
²{i}Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me a heave-offering: of every one whose heart prompteth him, ye shall take my heave-offering.{/i} (Ex. 25:1‑2)

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Ex. 35:5,22,29• ⁵{i}Take from among you a heave-offering to Jehovah: every one whose heart is willing, let him bring it, Jehovah's heave-offering—gold, and silver, and copper,{/i}
²²And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto Jehovah.
²⁹The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto Jehovah, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which Jehovah had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses. (Ex. 35:5,22,29)

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Ex. 36:3• ³{i}And they took from Moses every heave-offering that the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it. And they still brought him voluntary offerings morning by morning.{/i} (Ex. 36:3)

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1 Chron. 29:3‑9,17• ³Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house:
⁴even, three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal;
⁵{i}gold for things of gold, and silver for things of silver, and for all manner of work by the hands of artificers. And{/i} who is willing to consecrate his service this day unto Jehovah?
⁶Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers, of the king's work, offered willingly,
⁷and gave for the service of the house of God, of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.
⁸And they with whom precious stones were found, gave them to the treasure of the house of Jehovah, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.
⁹Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to Jehovah: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
¹⁷{i}And I know, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart have I willingly offered all these things; and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, offer willingly to thee.{/i} (1 Chron. 29:3‑9,17)

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Ezra 1:6• ⁶{i}And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with articles of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered.{/i} (Ezra 1:6)

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Ezra 2:69• ⁶⁹{i}They gave after their ability to the treasure of the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, and five thousand pounds of silver, and one hundred priests' coats.{/i} (Ezra 2:69)

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Ezra 7:16• ¹⁶{i}and all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, besides the voluntary offering of the people, and of the priests, who offer willingly for the house of their God which is at Jerusalem.{/i} (Ezra 7:16)

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Ezra 8:25‑28• ²⁵{i}and I weighed to them the silver and the gold and the vessels, the heave-offering for the house of our God, which the king and his counsellors and his princes, and all Israel present, had offered.{/i}
²⁶{i}And I weighed into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver; and silver vessels a hundred talents, and of gold a hundred talents;{/i}
²⁷{i}and twenty basons of gold, of a thousand darics; and two vessels of shining copper, precious as gold.{/i}
²⁸{i}And I said to them, Ye are holy unto Jehovah; the vessels also are holy; and the silver and the gold is a voluntary offering to Jehovah the God of your fathers.{/i} (Ezra 8:25‑28)

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Luke 21:4• ⁴for all these out of their abundance have cast into the gifts, but she out of her need hath cast in all the living which she had. (Luke 21:4)

cometh, etc.

Heb. ascendeth upon the heart of a man.

• As we have said before, we see here with Joash an exact knowledge of the law of the Lord which had been given him at his coronation. (“Joash, King of Judah: 2 Kings 12” by H.L. Rossier)

• To Joash the important thing was to go back to “the tribute of Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness” (2 Chron. 24:9), and not to turn aside from the word of the law, when it was a matter of honoring the house of God and all that was connected with it. It is the same in our day. (“Joash, King of Judah: 2 Kings 12” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the hallowed things that is brought into the house of Jehovah, the money of every one that passes the account, the money at which every man is valued, and all the money that comes into any man’s heart to bring into the house of Jehovah,

W. Kelly Translation

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And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of Jehovah, 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 Jehovah,

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)