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but the high places were still not removed. The people were making sacrifices and burning incense on the high places.

Jehoash said to the priests, “All the silver from the sacred offerings which is brought into the House of the Lord—the redemption money which is assessed to each man in the census, all the money from the redemption of dedicated things, and all the money which any man brings to the House of the Lord as a gift from his heart— the priests are to take it from the donor[a] and repair whatever damage is found in the temple.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 12:5 Or the financial officer
  2. 2 Kings 12:5 Literally the house. The temple sanctuary and the temple complex are often called the house or the House of the Lord. It is not always clear when house refers only to the sanctuary building and when it refers to the whole temple complex.