1. 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.
2. Jehoash did that which was right in the Lord’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
3. However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
4. 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,
5. let the priests take it to them, each man from his donor; and they shall repair the damage to the house, wherever any damage is found.”
6. But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house.
7. Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why don’t you repair the damage to the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the damage to the house.”
8. The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house.
9. But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the Lord’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into the Lord’s house into it.
10. When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put it in bags and counted the money that was found in the Lord’s house.
11. They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the Lord’s house; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on the Lord’s house,
12. and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to the Lord’s house, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.