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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 Beer-sheba.
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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, wherever 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 to 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.