4. Joash told the priests, “⌊Collect⌋ all the holy contributions that are brought into the Lord’s temple—the money each person is currently required to bring and all the money brought voluntarily to the Lord’s temple.
5. Each of the priests should receive it from the donors and use it to make repairs on the temple where they are needed.”
6. But by Joash’s twenty-third year as king, the priests still had not repaired the temple.
7. So King Joash called for Jehoiada and the other priests and asked them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage in the temple? Don’t take any more money from the donors ⌊for your own use⌋. Instead, use it to make repairs on the temple.”
8. The priests agreed neither to receive money from the people ⌊for personal use⌋ nor to be responsible for repairing the temple.
9. Then the priest Jehoiada took a box, drilled a hole in its lid, and put it at the right side of the altar as one comes into the Lord’s temple. The priests who guarded the entrance put the money that was brought to the Lord’s temple in the box.
10. Whenever they saw a lot of money in the box, the king’s scribe and the chief priest would collect and count the money that was donated in the Lord’s temple.