2 Kings 12

In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba. ²Joash did that which was right in the eyes of Allah all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. ³However the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. ⁴Joash said to the priests, All the money of the holy things that is brought into the house of Allah, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it comes into any man's heart to bring into the house of Allah, ⁵let every priest receive the money from one of the treasurers, and repair the damages of the temple, wherever any damage shall be found. ⁶But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of king Joash the priests had not repaired the damages of the temple. ⁷Then king Joash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, Why aren't you repairing the damages of the temple? Now therefore take no more money from the treasurers, but hand the money over for the damages of the temple. ⁸The priests agreed to take no more money from the people, neither repair the damages of the temple. ⁹But Jehoiada 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 Allah: and the priests who guarded the entrance put into it all the money that was brought into the house of Allah. ¹⁰It happened that whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest came up and put it in bags, and counted the money that was found in the house of Allah. ¹¹They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of Allah: and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on the house of Allah, ¹²and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and dressed stone to repair the damages of the house of Allah, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it. ¹³But the money brought into the house of Allah was not used for making cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver for the house of Allah; ¹⁴for they gave it to those who did the work, and repaired the house of Allah. ¹⁵Moreover they did not demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully. ¹⁶The money for the trespass-offerings, and the money for the sin-offerings, was not brought into the house of Allah: it belonged to the priests. ¹⁷Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it. Then Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem. ¹⁸Joash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of Allah, and of the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and Hazael went away from Jerusalem. ¹⁹Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? ²⁰His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla. ²¹For Jozacar Ibn Shimeath, and Jehozabad Ibn Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of Dawud: and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.