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And Jehoash did
that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the time that Jehoiada, the priest, instructed him.
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But with all this, 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 sanctified things that is brought into the house of the LORD, the money of the
redemptions of each one that passes
the account, the money of each soul according to the estimation of each one,
and all the money that comes into any man’s heart to bring into the house of the LORD,
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let the priests receive it, each man of his kinsmen; 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 year twenty-three 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 do ye not repair the breaches of the house? Now, therefore, receive no
more money of your kinsmen, but deliver it to repair the breaches of the house.
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And the priests consented to receive no
more money from the people, neither to be responsible to repair the breaches of the house.
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Then Jehoiada, the priest, took an ark and bored a hole in the lid of it and set it beside the altar, on the right side of the entrance to the house of the LORD; and the priests that kept the door put all the money
that was brought into the house of the LORD in it.
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And when they saw that there was much money in the ark, the king’s scribe and the high priest came up and counted the money that was found in the house of the LORD and guarded it.
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And they gave sufficient money into the hands of those that did the work and of those that had the responsibility of the house of the LORD; and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders that repaired the house of the LORD,
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and to the 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.