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In the seventh year of Jehu, Joas began to reign: and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Sebia, of Bersabee.
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And Joas did that which was right before the Lord all the days that Joiada, the priest, taught him.
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But yet he took not away the high places: for the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
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And Joas said to the priests: all the money of the sanctified things, which is brought into the temple of the Lord by those that pass, which is offered for the price of a soul, and which of their own accord, and of their own free heart, they bring into the temple of the Lord:
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Let the priests take it according to their order and repair the house, wheresoever they shall see any thing that wanteth repairing.
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Now till the three and twentieth year of king Joas the priests did not make the repairs of the temple.
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And king Joas called Joiada, the high priest, and the priests, saying to them: Why do you not repair the temple? Take you, therefore, money no more according to your order, but restore it for the repairing of the temple.