2. And Joash did what was right in the sight of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest [his uncle].
3. And Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.
4. After this, Joash decided to repair the Lord's house.
5. He gathered the priests and the Levites and said to them, Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year; and see that you hasten the matter. But the Levites did not hasten it.
6. So the king called for Jehoiada the high priest and said to him, Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax authorized by Moses the servant of the Lord and of the assembly of Israel for the Tent of the Testimony?
7. For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken into the house of God and also had used for the Baals all the dedicated things of the house of the Lord.
8. And at the king's command they made a chest and set it outside the gate of the house of the Lord.