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And Joash said to the priests, All the silver of the devoted things that is brought into the house of Jehovah, the silver coming over, each man the silver of his valuation, all the silver that comesupon any man's heart to bring into the houseof Jehovah,

even the priests shall take to themselves, each man from his friend; and they shall repair the breach of the house, in all places where a breach may be found.

And it happened, in the twenty third year of King Joash, that the priests had not repaired the breach of the house.

And King Joash called to Jehoiada the priest, and the priests, and said to them, Why have you not repaired the breach of the house? And now, do not receive any silver from your friends, but give it for the breach of the house.

And the priests consented not to receive silver from the people, nor to strengthen the breach of the house.

And Jehoiada the priest took a chest and cut a hole in its lid, and put it near the altar, on the right side, as one comes into the house of Jehovah, and the priests who kept the door put in it all the silver brought into the house of Jehovah.

And it happened, when they saw that the silver in the chest was plentiful, that a scribe of the king, and the high priest went up, and they bound it up, and counted the silver found in the house of Jehovah.

And they weighed silver into the hands of those doing the work, those overseeing the house of Jehovah; and they gave it, weighed it out, to the craftsmen in wood, and to the builders who were working on the house of Jehovah,

and to the masons, and the stone cutters, and to buy wood and cut stone to strengthen the breach of the house of Jehovah; and for all that went out on the house, to make it strong.

However, there were not made for the house of Jehovah basins of silver, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, any vessels of gold or vessels of silver, of the silver brought into the house of Jehovah;

for they gave it to those doing the work, and they made strong the house of Jehovah with it.

And they did not reckon with the men into whose hand they gave the silver, to give to those doing the work, for they were dealing with faithfulness.

And the guilt offering silver and the sin offering silver was not brought into the house of Jehovah, for it was the priests'.