Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
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2 Kings 12:1 in context
2 Kings 12:1–4
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Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
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Jehoash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
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However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
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Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into the LORD’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated, and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into the LORD’s house,
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