4. After this, Joash intended to restore The LORD's house.

5. He gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, "Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather money to repair the house of your God from all Israel from year to year. See that you expedite this matter." However the Levites didn't do it right away.

6. The king called for JEHOIADA the chief, and said to him, "Why haven't you required of the Levites to bring in the tax of Moses the servant of The LORD, and of the assembly of Israel, out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, for the Tent of the Testimony?"

7. For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up God's house; and they also gave all the dedicated things of The LORD's house to the Baals.

8. So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of The LORD's house.

9. They made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for the LORD the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness.

10. All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had filled it.

11. Whenever the chest was brought to the king's officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and the chief priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.

12. The king and JEHOIADA gave it to those who did the work of the service of The LORD's house. They hired masons and carpenters to restore The LORD's house, and also those who worked iron and brass to repair The LORD's house.

13. So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands. They set up God's house as it was designed, and strengthened it.

14. When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and JEHOIADA, from which were made vessels for The LORD's house, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, including spoons and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in The LORD's house continually all the days of JEHOIADA.

15. But JEHOIADA grew old and was full of days, and he died. He was one hundred thirty years old when he died.

16. They buried him in David's city among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.