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* In the seventh year of Jehu , Jehoash began to reign ; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem ; and his mother 's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba . * And Jehoash did what was right in the sight of Jehovah , all the days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him . * Only , the high places were not removed : the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places . * 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 , * let the priests take it , every man of his acquaintance ; and let them repair the breaches of the house , wherever any breach is found . * And it was [so that ] in the twenty-third year of king Jehoash , the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house . * Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest , and the priests , and said to them , Why have ye not repaired the breaches of the house ? And now receive no money of your acquaintances , but give it for the breaches of the house . * And the priests consented to receive no money of the people , and that they should only repair the breaches of the house . * And Jehoiada the priest took a chest , and bored a hole in the lid , and set it beside the altar , on the right side as one comes into the house of Jehovah ; and the priests that kept the door put into it all the money brought into the house of Jehovah . * And it came to pass when they saw that there was much money in the chest , that the king 's scribe and the high priest came up , and they tied up and counted the money that was found in the house of Jehovah . * And they gave the money , weighed out into the hands of them that did the work , who were appointed over the house of Jehovah ; and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders that wrought upon the house of Jehovah , * and to masons , and hewers of stone , and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the house of Jehovah , and for all that had to be laid out on the house for repairs . * However there were not made for the house of Jehovah basons of silver , knives , bowls , trumpets , nor any utensil of gold or utensil of silver , of the money that was brought [into ] the house of Jehovah ; * but they gave that to the workmen , and repaired the house of Jehovah with it . * And they did not reckon with the men into whose hand they gave the money to be bestowed on workmen ; for they dealt faithfully . * The money of trespass-offerings , and the money of sin-offerings , was not brought into the house of Jehovah : it was for the priests . * Then Hazael king of Syria went up , and fought against Gath , and took it . And Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem . * 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 . * 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 ? * And his servants rose up and made a conspiracy , and smote Joash in the house of Millo , at the descent of Silla . * And 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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