3. Now Jehoash did what was right in Adonai’s eyes all his days, just as Jehoiada the kohen instructed him.
4. The high places, however, were not taken away. The people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
5. Then Jehoash said to the kohanim, “All the money of the sacred donations brought to the House of Adonai—the money in exchange for each person’s valuation, as well as all the money that anyone’s heart prompts him to bring to the House of Adonai—
6. let the kohanim receive it, each from one of the treasurers, so they may repair the damage to the House wherever any damage is found.”
7. But by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the kohanim still had not repaired the damage to the House.
8. Then King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the kohen and the other kohanim, and said to them, “Why are you not repairing the damage to the House? Now therefore, take no more money from your treasurers, but hand it over for the damage to the House.”
9. The kohanim agreed that they would take no more money from the people, nor would they repair the damage of the House.
10. But Jehoiada the kohen took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and placed it beside the altar, on the right side as one entered the House of Adonai. The priestly guards of the threshold deposited there all the money that was brought to the House of Adonai.