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1 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. 2 And Je­hoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days where­in Je­hoia­da the priest in­struct­ed him. 3 But the high places were not tak­en away: the peo­ple still sac­ri­ficed and burnt in­cense in the high places. 4 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, 5 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. 6 But it was ­so, that in the three and twen­ti­eth year of king Je­hoash the priests had not re­paired the breach­es of the house. 7 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. 8 And the priests con­sent­ed to re­ceive no more mon­ey of the peo­ple, nei­ther to re­pair the breach­es of the house. 9 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. 10 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. 11 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, 12 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. 13 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: 14 But they gave that to the work­men, and re­paired there­with the house of the LORD. 15 More­over they reck­oned not with the men, into whose hand they de­liv­ered the mon­ey to be be­stowed on work­men: for they dealt faith­ful­ly. 16 The tres­pass mon­ey and sin mon­ey was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests'. 17 Then Haz­a­el king of Syr­ia went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Haz­a­el set his face to go up to Jerusalem. 18 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. 19 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? 20 And his ser­vants arose, and made a con­spir­a­cy, and slew Joash in the house of Mil­lo, which goeth down to Sil­la. 21 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.