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Then King Jehoash sent for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said to them, Why have you not made good what is damaged in the house? now take no more money from your neighbours, but give it for the building up of the house.
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So the priests made an agreement to take no more money from the people, and not to make good what was damaged in the house.
9
But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and making a hole in the cover of it, put it by the altar, on the right side when one comes into the house of the Lord; and the priests who kept the door put in it regularly all the money which was taken into the house of the Lord.
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And when they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest came and put it in bags, noting the amount of all the money there was in the house of the Lord.
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And the money which was measured out they gave regularly to those who were responsible for overseeing the work, and these gave it in payment to the woodworkers and the builders who were working on the house of the Lord,
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And to the wall-builders and the stone-cutters, and to get wood and cut stone for building up the broken parts of the house of the Lord, and for everything needed to put the house in good order.
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But the money was not used for making silver cups or scissors or basins or wind-instruments or any vessels of gold or silver for the house of the Lord;
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But it was all given to the workmen who were building up the house.
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And they did not get any statement of accounts from the men to whom the money was given for the workmen, for they made use of it with good faith.
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The money of the offerings for error and the sin-offerings was not taken into the house of the Lord; it was the priests'.
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Then Hazael, king of Aram, went up against Gath and took it; and his purpose was to go up to Jerusalem.