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Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the Priest and the other priests, and said to them, “Why have you not repaired the ruins of the Temple? Now, therefore, receive no more money from your acquaintances unless you deliver it to repair the ruins of the Temple.”

So the priests consented to neither receive any more money from the people nor to repair the decayed places of the Temple.

Then, Jehoiada the Priest took a chest and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the Altar, on the right side, as every man comes into the Temple of the LORD. And the priests who kept the door put in all the money that was brought into the House of the LORD.

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