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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.
02 And Jehoash did that which was right in the
sight of the Lord all his days wherein Jehoiada
the priest instructed him.
03 But the high places were not taken away: the
people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the
high places.
04 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,
05 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.
06 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth
year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired
the breaches of the house.
07 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.
08 And the priests consented to receive no more
money of the people, neither to repair the
breaches of the house.
09 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,
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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.
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