1. Yeho’ash began to reign in the seventh year of Yĕhu, and he reigned forty years in Yerushalayim. And his mother’s name was Tsiḇyah of Be’ĕrsheḇa.
2. And Yeho’ash did what was right in the eyes of יהוה all the days in which Yehoyaḏa the priest instructed him.
3. However, the high places were not taken away; the people still slaughter and burned incense on the high places.
4. And Yeho’ash said to the priests, “All the silver of the set-apart gifts that are brought into the House of יהוה, the silver coming over, each man’s assessment silver, all the silver that a man purposes in his heart to bring into the House of יהוה,
5. let the priests take for themselves, each from his friend. And let them repair the damages of the House, wherever there is damage.”
6. And it came to be, by the twenty-third year of Sovereign Yeho’ash, that the priests had not repaired the damages of the House,
7. and Sovereign Yeho’ash called Yehoyaḏa the priest and the other priests, and said to them, “Why have you not repaired the damages of the House? And now, do not take any more silver from your friends, but give it for repairing the damages of the House.”
8. And the priests agreed that they would neither receive any more silver from the people, nor repair the damages of the House.
9. And Yehoyaḏa 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 House of יהוה. And the priests who guarded the door put there all the silver that was brought into the House of יהוה.