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2 KingsChapter 12

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Jehoash was seven years old when he became king.
In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah, from Beersheba.
Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all his days, because Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
Yet the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense at the high places.
Jehoash said to the priests, "All the money from the sacred gifts brought into the house of the LORD—the money each man is assessed, the money paid as the valuation for persons, and all the money that anyone freely decides to bring to the house of the LORD—
let the priests take it for themselves, each from his own acquaintance, and let them repair whatever damage is found in the house.
But by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests still had not repaired the damage to the temple.
So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and said to them, "Why are you not repairing the damage to the temple? From now on, take no more money from those who deal with you; hand it over instead for the repair of the temple."
The priests agreed that they would take no more money from the people and would no longer carry out the repairs of the temple themselves.
Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right as one enters the house of the LORD. There the priests who guarded the threshold put all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.
Whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the king's secretary and the high priest would come up, tie it in bags, and count the money found in the house of the LORD.
They handed over the money that had been counted to the workmen appointed over the house of the LORD, and these paid it out to the carpenters and builders who worked on the house of the LORD,
and to the masons and stonecutters, and for buying timber and dressed stone to repair the damage to the house of the LORD, and for every other expense of the repairs.
But none of the money brought into the house of the LORD was used to make silver basins, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, or any other vessel of gold or silver for the house of the LORD.
It was given to the workmen, and with it they repaired the house of the LORD.
No accounting was demanded from the men into whose hands the money was placed to pay the workers, for they acted in good faith.
The money from the guilt offerings and the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.
At that time Hazael king of Aram marched up, attacked Gath, and captured it. Then he set his sights on marching against Jerusalem.
So Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred objects that his fathers Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, together with his own dedicated gifts and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram, who then withdrew from Jerusalem.
As for the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did, they are written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah.
His servants rose up, formed a conspiracy, and struck Joash down at Beth Millo, on the road down to Silla.
It was Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer, his servants, who struck him down, and he died. They buried him with his fathers in the City of David, and Amaziah his son became king in his place.
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