4. Jehoash said to the priests, "All the money of the holy things that is brought into The LORD's house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated, and all the money that it comes into any man's heart to bring into The LORD's house,Exodus 30:12

5. let the priests take it to them, each man from his donor; and they shall repair the damage to the house, wherever any damage is found."

6. But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house.

7. Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, "Why don't you repair the damage to the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the damage to the house."

8. The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house.

9. But 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 LORD's house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into The LORD's house into it.

10. When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put it in bags and counted the money that was found in The LORD's house.

11. They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of The LORD's house; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on The LORD's house,

12. and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to The LORD's house, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

13. But there were not made for The LORD's house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into The LORD's house;

14. for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired The LORD's house with it.

15. Moreover they didn't 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.

16. The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into The LORD's house. It was the priests'.

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.

17. Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came, and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them.

18. They abandoned the house of The LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and the idols, so wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.

19. Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to The LORD, and they testified against them; but they would not listen.

20. The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, "Thus says God, 'Why do you disobey The LORD's commandments, so that you can't prosper? Because you have forsaken The LORD, he has also forsaken you.'"

21. They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of The LORD's house.

22. Thus JOASH the king didn't remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, "May the LORD look at it, and repay it."

23. At the end of the year, the army of the Syrians came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all their plunder to the king of Damascus.

24. For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and the LORD delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken The LORD, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment on JOASH.

25. When they had departed from him (for they left him very sick), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died. They buried him in David's city, but they didn't bury him in the tombs of the kings.

26. These are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.

27. Now concerning his sons, the greatness of the burdens laid on him, and the rebuilding of God's house, behold, they are written in the commentary of the book of the kings. Amaziah his son reigned in his place.