2Kings:12:4-18
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Jeho '
ash said to the priests , "
All the money of the holy things which is brought into the house of the LORD ,
the money for which each man is assessed--the money from the assessment of persons--and the money which a man '
s heart prompts him to bring into the house of the LORD ,
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let the priests take ,
each from his acquaintance ;
and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered ."
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But by the twenty-third year of King Jeho '
ash the priests had made no repairs on the house .
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Therefore King Jeho '
ash summoned Jehoi '
ada the priest and the other priests and said to them , "
Why are you not repairing the house ?
Now therefore take no more money from your acquaintances ,
but hand it over for the repair of the house ."
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So the priests agreed that they should take no more money from the people ,
and that they should not repair the house .
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Then Jehoi '
ada 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 entered the house of the LORD ;
and the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD .
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And whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest ,
the king '
s secretary and the high priest came up and they counted and tied up in bags the money that was found in the house of the LORD .
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Then they would give the money that was weighed out into the hands of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of the LORD ;
and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked upon the house of the LORD ,
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and to the masons and the stonecutters ,
as well as to buy timber and quarried stone for making repairs on the house of the LORD ,
and for any outlay upon the repairs of the house .
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But there were not made for the house of the LORD basins of silver ,
snuffers ,
bowls ,
trumpets ,
or any vessels of gold ,
or of silver ,
from the money that was brought into the house of the LORD ,
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for that was given to the workmen who were repairing the house of the LORD with it .
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And they did not ask an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workmen ,
for they dealt honestly .
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The money from the guilt offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD ;
it belonged to the priests .
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At that time Haz '
ael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath ,
and took it .
But when Haz '
ael set his face to go up against Jerusalem ,
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Jeho '
ash king of Judah took all the votive gifts that Jehosh '
aphat and Jeho '
ram and Ahazi '
ah ,
his fathers ,
the kings of Judah ,
had dedicated ,
and his own votive gifts ,
and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the king '
s house ,
and sent these to Haz '
ael king of Syria .
Then Haz '
ael went away from Jerusalem .
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