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In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
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Jehoash did what was right in the sight of the Lord all the days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
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But the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
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And Jehoash said to the priests, "All the money of the dedicated gifts that are brought into the house of the Lord--each man's census money, each man's assessment money--and all the money that a man purposes in his heart to bring into the house of the Lord,
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let the priests take it themselves, each from his constituency; and let them repair the damages of the temple, wherever any dilapidation is found."
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Now it was so, by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, that the priests had not repaired the damages of the temple.