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2 Kings 12
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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.
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- And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the
LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
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- But the high places were not taken away: the people
still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
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- 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,
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- 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.
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- But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of
king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
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- 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.
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- And the priests consented to receive no more money of
the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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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- 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.
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- 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:
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- But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired
therewith the house of the LORD.
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- Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand
they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
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- The trespass money and sin money was not brought into
the house of the LORD: it was the priests'.
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- Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against
Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
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- 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.
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- 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?
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- And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew
Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
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- 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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