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* Joash reigned in the seventh year of Jehu . And he reigned forty years in Jerusalem ; and the name of his mother was Zibiah of Beersheba . * And Joash did that which was good in the eyes of Jehovah all his days in which Jehoiada the priest guided him ; * only , the high places were not destroyed ; the people still sacrificed and offered incense in high places . * And Joash said to the priests , All the silver of the devoted things that is brought into the house of Jehovah , the silver coming over , each man the silver of his valuation , all the silver that comes upon any man 's heart to bring into the house of Jehovah , * even the priests shall take to themselves , each man from his friend ; and they shall repair the breach of the house , in all places where a breach may be found . * And it happened , in the twenty third year of King Joash , that the priests had not repaired the breach of the house . * And king Joash called to Jehoiada the priest , and the priests , and said to them , Why have you not repaired the breach of the house ? And now , do not receive any silver from your friends , but give it for the breach of the house . * And the priests consented not to receive silver from the people , nor to strengthen the breach of the house . * And Jehoiada the priest took a chest and cut a hole in its lid , and put it near the altar , on the right side , as one comes into the house of Jehovah , and the priests who kept the door put in it all the silver brought into the house of Jehovah . * And it happened , when they saw that the silver in the chest was plentiful , that a scribe of the king , and the high priest went up , and they bound it up , and counted the silver found in the house of Jehovah . * And they weighed silver into the hands of those doing the work , those overseeing the house of Jehovah ; and they brought it out to the craftsmen in wood , and to the builders who were working on the house of Jehovah , * and to the masons , and the stone cutters , and to buy wood and cut stone to strengthen the breach of the house of Jehovah ; and for all that went out on the house , to make it strong . * However , there were not made for the house of Jehovah basins of silver , snuffers , bowls , trumpets , any vessels of gold or vessels of silver , of the silver brought into the house of Jehovah ; * For they gave it to those doing the work , and they made strong the house of Jehovah with it . * And they did not reckon with the men into whose hand they gave the silver , to give to those doing the work , for they were dealing with faithfulness . * And the guilt offering silver and the sin offering silver was not brought into the house of Jehovah , for it was the priests '. * Then Hazael the king of Syria went up and fought against Gath , and captured it ; and Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem . * And Joash the king of Judah took all the dedicated things that Jehoshaphat , and Jehoram , and Ahaziah , his fathers , the kings of Judah , had dedicated , and his own dedicated things , and all the gold found in the treasures of the house of Jehovah , and of the house of the king , and sent to Hazael the 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 Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah ? * And his servants rose up and made a conspiracy and killed Joash in the house of Millo , which goes down to Silla . * For Jozachar the son of Shimeath , and Jehozabad the son of Shomer , his servants , killed him ; and he died . And they buried him with his fathers in the city of David . And his son Amaziah reigned in his place .

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