3. Yet the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
4. And Joash said to the priests, All the current money brought into the house of the Lord to provide the dedicated things, also the money [which the priests by command have] assessed on all those bound by vows, also all the money that it comes into any man's heart voluntarily to bring into the house of the Lord,
5. Let the priests solicit and receive such contributions, every man from his acquaintance, and let them repair the Lord's house wherever any such need may be found.
6. But in the twenty-third year of King Joash's reign the priests had not made the needed repairs on the Lord's house.
7. Then King Joash called for Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and said to them, Why are you not repairing the [Lord's] house? Do not take any more money from your acquaintances, but turn it all over for the repair of the house. [You are no longer responsible for this work. I will take it into my own hands.]
8. And the priests consented to receive no more money from the people, nor to repair the breaches of the house.