Bible Reading for April 25

2 Kings Chapter 12

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.

2 And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his
days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

3 But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed
and burnt incense in the high places.

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,

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.

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.

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.

8 And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people,
neither to repair the breaches of the house.

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.

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.

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,

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.

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:

14 But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house
of the LORD.

15 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they
delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.

16 The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of
the LORD: it was the priests'.

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.

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.

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?

20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the
house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.

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.

2 Kings Chapter 13

1 In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of
Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria,
and reigned seventeen years.

2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed
the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he
departed not therefrom.

3 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered
them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of
Benhadad the son of Hazael, all their days.

4 And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him: for
he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.

5 (And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under
the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their
tents, as beforetime.

6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam,
who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the grove
also in Samaria.)

7 Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and
ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had
destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.

8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his
might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Israel?

9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria:
and Joash his son reigned in his stead.

10 In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash
the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen
years.

11 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he departed
not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin:
but he walked therein.

12 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might
wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne:
and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash
the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said,
O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.

15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him
bow and arrows.

16 And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And
he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king's hands.

17 And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha
said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD'S
deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt
smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.

18 And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them. And he said unto the
king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed.

19 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have
smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst
consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.

20 And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites
invaded the land at the coming in of the year.

21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they
spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha:
and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he
revived, and stood up on his feet.

22 But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.

23 And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and
had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his
presence as yet.

24 So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in his stead.

25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of
Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the
hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and
recovered the cities of Israel.

2 Kings Chapter 14

1 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned
Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.

2 He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned
twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan
of Jerusalem.

3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like
David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.

4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did
sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.

5 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand,
that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father.

6 But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that
which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD
commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the
children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every
man shall be put to death for his own sin.

7 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by
war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.

8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of
Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.