1. In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2. And Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all his days, because Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
3. Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings on the high places.
4. Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into the house of the Lord, the money for which each man is assessed—the money from the assessment of persons—and the money that a man’s heart prompts him to bring into the house of the Lord,
5. let the priests take, each from his donor, and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered.”
6. But by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had made no repairs on the house.
7. Therefore King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and said to them, “Why are you not repairing the house? Now therefore take no more money from your donors, but hand it over for the repair of the house.”
8. So the priests agreed that they should take no more money from the people, and that they should not repair the house.