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* And in the seventh year of Jehu , Joash began to reign . And he reigned in Jerusalem forty years . And his mother 's name [was ] Zibiah of Beer-sheba . * And Joash did the right in the sight of the LORD all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him . * But the high places were not taken away . The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places . * And Joash said to the priests , All the silver from things dedicated to God , which is brought into the house of the LORD , the silver from each man the silver of his valuation , all the silver that comes into any man 's heart to bring to the house of the LORD , * let the priests take [it ] to themselves , each man from those he knows . And let them repair the breaks in the house , in all [places ] where any break shall be found . * And it happened in the twenty-third year of King Joash , the priests had not repaired the breaks of the house . * Then king Joash called for Jehoiada the priest , and the priests , and said to them , Why are you not repairing the breaks of the house ? And now take no silver from those you know , but deliver it for the breaks of the house . * And the priests agreed to take no silver from the people , nor to repair the breaks of the house . * But Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid . And he set it beside the altar , on the right side as one comes into the house of the LORD . And the priests who kept the door put in it all the silver brought into the house of the LORD . * And it happened when they saw that much silver [was ] in the chest , the king 's scribe and the high priest came up . And they bound and counted the silver that was found [in ] the house of the LORD . * And they gave the silver which was counted into the hands of those who did the work , those overseeing the house of the LORD . And they laid it out to the carpenters and builders who worked on the house of the LORD , * and to masons and cutters of stone , and to buy timber and cut stone to repair the breaks of the house of the LORD , and for all that went forth for the house , to repair [it ]. * Only , there were no bowls of silver , snuffers , basins , trumpets , or any vessels of gold or vessels of silver , made for the house of the LORD from the silver which [was ] brought into the house of the LORD . * For they gave it to the workmen , and repaired the house of the LORD with it . * And they did not make an accounting with the men into whose hands they gave the silver to be given to the workmen . For they dealt faithfully . * The trespass silver and sin silver was not brought into the house of the LORD . It was the priests '. * Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath , and took it . And Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem . * And Joash king of Judah took all the holy things which Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah , his fathers , kings of Judah , had dedicated , and his own holy things , and all the gold 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 . * 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 arose and made a plot . And they 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 , struck him , and he died . And they buried him with his fathers in the city of David . And Amaziah his son reigned in his place .

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