1. In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2. Jehoash did right in the sight of the Lord all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
3. Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
4. Then Jehoash said to the priests, "All the money of the sacred things which is brought into the house of the Lord, in current money, both the money of each man's assessment and all the money which any man's heart prompts him to bring into the house of the Lord,
5. let the priests take it for themselves, each from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the damages of the house wherever any damage may be found."
6. But it came about that in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damages of the house.
7. Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests and said to them, "Why do you not repair the damages of the house? Now therefore take no more money from your acquaintances, but pay it for the damages of the house."
8. So the priests agreed that they would take no more money from the people, nor repair the damages of the house.
9. But Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid and put it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of the Lord; and the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money which was brought into the house of the Lord.
10. When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest came up and tied it in bags and counted the money which was found in the house of the Lord.